Carbon tax on a state level to try to fight a global problem makes 0 sense actually.

You just shift the emissions from your location to the location that you buy products from.

Basically what happened in Germany: more expensive "clean" energy means their own production went down and the world bought more from China instead. The net result is probably higher global emissions overall.

This is why an economics based strictly on scarcity cannot get us where we need to go. Markets, not knowing what it's like to be thirsty, will interpret a willingness to poison the well as entrepreneurial spirit to be encouraged.

We need a system where being known as somebody who causes more problems than they solve puts you (and the people you've done business with) at an economic disadvantage.