Yes. This is probably the easiest thing to quantify with a sales tax, but we are too far down the slippery used oil-soaked slope for it to be possible. The world is eating its own flesh in order to maintain society based on the Market. The political counterpoint to a market society is sales tax. The counterpoint to wage slavery is UBI. 50 years ago, we could have implemented all of civilization's overhead costs (education, good health, wealth redistribution(social security, welfare, job creation, etc) into sales tax and UBI. Simple, pragmatic and equal. Everyone would see the true costs of buying life instead of living it.

To do so at this point (to include paying off present government debts) is inconceivable. $30T in the US and rising, plus interest.

The whole fantasy of keeping the current state of economic thought in place is insane. The fantasy of keeping consumptionism is insane. Most of the energy and resources being used are for things we never needed in the first place (fossil fuels replaced human labor, and cities turned people into unused cannon fodder just for the sake of handing money to each other and pretending that is an economy). To just pay off the debt in 10 years, every person in the US would have to pay at least $10,000 per year. That's what we're paying for health care already, and a large number aren't getting any. (I'm actually not ready to deal with the anxiety of putting numbers to our total perspective uselessness vortex yet. I suspect nobody is. That's why we keep the system of the mean Mean in place: the people who we call "leaders" don't even have a clue how stupid our economy is, nor do they have to care).

Along come environmentalism solutions, and people just mooove along.

"If your solution to the climate problem starts with "We need to raise money", you don't understand the problem."