The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
I have advocated an entirely different approach than cap and tax which would be worldwide in application and which emphasizes technology as a way of reducing total emissions.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not when I came to die discover that I had not lived.