Take the supply of
cheap fossil fuels away, and they become completely uninhabitable for most of the year: they are too cold, too hot or too dark.
Not exact matches
A fast move
away from
cheap abundant
fossil fuels will be much costlier than a slow one, but a slow shift means the long - lived gases will have accumulated to higher levels in the atmosphere mid-century, requiring much steeper cuts later.
And, at least in his recent video interview with Carbon Brief, it seems Lee, like many economists who came of age at the peak of the traditional environmental movement, has a very locked - in view that raising the cost of polluting is the critical way to shift global economies
away from
cheap fossil fuels.
Then use that carbon revenue to help transition other parts of society
away from
fossil fuels where it is
cheaper to do so.