It's super regressive and allows tax free investment growth, so the rich will get richer and low/middle class forced to consume less. Despite exacerbating income and wealth inequality, it might reduce CO2 through reduced consumption. I can't see how it would ever be worthwhile to switch, but maybe if you started your society that way you could continually tweak it.
When measured as a share of GDP, Hungary leads OECD countries with consumption taxes measuring 16.2 percent of GDP. The United States is again at the low end with consumption taxes raising 4.3 percent of GDP.[..]
By disincentivizing consumption as compared to saving, you would reduce spending and therefore the velocity of money. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money
By reducing the velocity of money, you would trash the economy.
TLDR: Money would sit in banks. Anyone doing anything for work that wasn't an absolute necessity (i.e., things with inelastic demand) would take a huge hit. Everyone would be worse off.