What's wrong with CO2? It's not a serious issue, it's just an easy proxy for real environmental damage, focusing on CO2 simplifies complex issues like deforestation, pollution, resource depletion, and actual toxic emissions from the rest of the world. The idea is we're going to implement another tax on the plebs to drive a carbon economy and that will compensate for the damage the elites and 3rd worlders are doing. Then on top of that all the other inherent taxes like lithium batteries, transmission, windmill subsidies, solar recycling, and so on. And of course, this has to be done on the back of the most productive people in society because who else is going to do it.

I honestly don't know what's going on here.

I don't know how "we collectively de-fossil fuel and some prices may go up who knows, science!" becomes "damage by elites and 3rd worlders" and "tax" becomes "lithium batteries" "transmission" "windmill subsidies" "solar recycling", and given all that, how it's being done on the backs of the most productive in society (is this a fancy way of saying: people who buy things will buy things with batteries?)

If the idea is strictly "What's wrong with CO2"...who said CO2? :)