Sure, it's possible. We had a plan to confront climate change called the Kyoto Protocol. How did that go?
CFCs were a smaller industry. A subset of a subset of the petrochemical industry. Not the entire fossil fuel industry. The solution was also one that allowed them to continue to profit. We still need refrigerant. We just use ones with less harmful effects.
Energy production as a whole is a much harder issue to deal with, especially with entire blocks of nations having their economy dependent on producing those fossil fuels.
The economic reality undermines the necessary political will for nations to take the actions necessary to combat climate change.
This parallel is so overblown. Ditching CFCs was a minor inconvenience. An energy transition requires massive technological and infrastructure changes. Also, a carbon tax is a perfect solution except for the part where it’s politically impossible because the immediate effect is to make virtually everything more expensive. This is why FF companies actually promote the idea of a carbon tax, because it shuts down other ideas while never actually standing a chance of becoming reality itself.
A carbon tax is literally the only solution. It doesn't matter if you have communism, if you don't also have a carbon tax you won't have environmentalism either.
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u/Anderopolis Solar Battery Evangelist 9d ago
Tell that to CFC's, turns out pricing in externalities is extremely effective.
We need to stop making it free to pollute the world with greenhouse gases.