Well you could compare the carbon dioxide tax/cash-grab to life assurance if you were completely deluded...
It is more like a massive scam/snatch and grab daylight robbery...
Now think about that cash-depletion happening to you and your family every day when you are 80...
The massive government enforcement and management infrastructure that will be required to manage this highly intrusive and draconian tax/cash grab and the purposeful design by these inept socialists to make it very difficult and expensive for future governments to unwind and abolish despite the will of the people, highlights that you seem to be completely ill-informed about this massive carbon dioxide tax/cash-grab...
It is purposely designed so that we cannot "abandon it in the future." without massive cost and difficulty...
"Yes it may have cost us something." You need to check your sums and see exactly how much we will all be paying and for what reason... essentially we will be sending billions and billions of dollars to some offshore destinations for the right to produce electricity in Australia...