Buzzfeed gets one thing slightly wrong

That's how this apologia from The Washington Post frames it, sure. Then again, going to the Post for the word on BuzzFeed's journalistic malpractice is like taking Facebook's word on the privacy threats posed by Google.

it's a major thing

Is it, though? In yet another completely isolated incident, an innocent, chaste, earnest inquiry is led astray when it just by chance happens to treat anonymous hearsay from the Establishment as unquestionable fact? You don't reckon each new mass shooting in isolation, but you're glad to write off each new day's journalistic malfeasance around Russiagate as another lamentable 'oopsie?'

Could it be — and bear with me here — that we're pretending we can't see the obvious pattern of behavior here because it plays to what we already want to believe? Confirmation bias is easy, but critical media literacy ain't that hard.

no-one bats an eyelid

Sure, Trump's a bullshitter. May I suggest he's not the only one? It isn't only Trump supporters that've picked up on that by now, is it?

Wishful thinking.

Fair play. Right up front, let's admit the obvious. We're too late.

The only people who will pay are consumers and prices will never go down

If we're honest enough to face feedback loops like boiling methane in the permafrost contributing to more boiling methane in the permafrost, we can deal with the consequences of carbon taxes.

it should be looked at as a national security issue

On the one hand you have uninhabitable Earth in our near-future. On the other you have the concern that a tax on carbon emissions from private jets and luxury yachts is theft.

create a race to the moon mentality

Right, because if you want something done, do it as a large, government program. As basic research. With no funding. Maybe that is the best way to get to a dead world.

Taxing existing infrastructure will not work

Let's say, for the sake of argument, that there is a real cost to carbon emissions. One we pay in terms of the survival of life as we know it on Earth. Carbon taxes would put that cost on balance sheets. What else would?

its not bold

Given the stakes and the power of the resistance to it, yes, it is.

its not even giving people an option

I may be part of the problem, just like anyone else, but then this isn't up to me. I don't have an option as it is. Not like some do.

the energy companies will pass it on

That's how economics works.

because you cant go anywhere else

You've hit the nail on the head.