Climate Hysterics will learn one thing eventually.
No one is going to live a crappier life so they can be happy.
You’re right; they are trying to get Westerners to accept a lower standard of living (often while working more hours than before), and it isn’t going to happen - voluntarily.
In the end, it will be used to just push laws to reduce that standard of living. In addition to making car ownership harder (never mind homes), the economy is configured in such a way that single-income families have a VERY hard time. I don’t mean a luxurious lifestyle, just a reasonable safe one (in terms of an area without rampant crime - even in schools).
All of the libs in pictures posted by FReepers look well-fed, clothed, and comfortable; they think “someone else” will be doing without, not them.