Climate change - again

I argued in a post back in October that there was little chance that governments would follow the recommendations of the recent climate change report, and that if they even tried their populations would probably revolt.  So the French government raised its hydrocarbon tax this year by 7.6 cents per liter on diesel and 3.9 cents on petrol, as part of a campaign for cleaner cars and fuel, with a further proposed increase of 6.5 cents on diesel and 2.9 cents on petrol on 1 January 2019. The result has been four weeks of rioting in Paris and elsewhere in France. I rest my case.

Can you imagine what would happen if a government tried to ban eating beef, milk and cheese, or using wool (domestic cattle and sheep produce 20-25% of the world's methane, a greenhouse gas about 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide) ? Or if a government demanded that we cut in half the energy used to heat and cool our homes (think of the people in Phoenix with no air conditioning, or the people in Maine with no heat). Or if a government banned almost all personal automobiles?  Yet these are all recommendations of the climate report.