Your post: made ma laugh out loud. No one around (at work), thankfully, so I didn’t have to share.
PERFECT ANSWER TO HER. Another good question would be, “how does taking money from the average American stop ‘climate change’?”.
Elementary, dummy!
After paying for all the fees, taxes, surcharges, the poor, the U.S. illegals, European illegals, Asian poor, all middle class, unsubsidized workers with a job in the private sector footing the bills will have no time to agonize about the end of the world as we know it in November, 2094, nor also, of course, to agonize about how to afford paying for luxuries like rent/mortgage, food, utilities, transportation, clothing and footwear, medical care, dental care, education, basic home maintenance supplies, analgesics and tranquilizers...
But on the bright side, no more bureaucracy; they were all dealt with as no longer necessary in 2093, but since we will no longer have climate change, all the sacrifices must have worked.
Welcome to a dead planet...
That constant -273.15 degrees Celsius will be a bitch!
But they meant well.
See you on the other side.