Good pushback, @Patrick Powers, but you are confusing captive dependency with public will. The voters who revolted against the 1993 gas tax weren't explicitly demanding ecocide; they were reacting to the physical reality of an economy that mandates long commutes in gasoline-powered cars just to afford rent.
When private monopolies control the infrastructure—paving over public transit, locking the grid into gigawatts of fossil fuels, and hoarding arable land for animal agriculture—everyday survival requires burning carbon. You cannot tax working people out of a thermodynamic trap built by energy conglomerates.
If we democratize the physical hardware of society, we change the default mechanics of survival. Transitioning data centers, power grids, and protein production into worker-owned public commons means people no longer have to choose between feeding their families and preserving the ecosystem.
People don't inherently want to destroy the biosphere. Give them a physical infrastructure that doesn't demand planetary ruin and mass slaughter as the daily price of admission, and watch how fast that tribal conditioning dissolves.