You can look at the issue however you want, but at the end of the day somebody is going to have to pay for the renewable energy and carbon sequestration tech.

We can fund them with taxpayer money, which means the average Joe pays, and politicians pick winning (or losing) technologies.

Or we can make the polluters fund them, and let the invisible hand pick the best technologies.

I find the second option much more attractive. And Nobel-prize winning economists agree: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/08/business/economic-science...