3/ Those at the forefront of the green movement are instinctively correct. They are making the right choice in fighting back against forces that seek our destruction. They rightly sense that something is fundamentally wrong with how we live our lives and the behaviours that are rewarded…
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4/ However, while many at the forefront of the climate change movement are correctly identifying the symptoms and desperately pushing politicians to do more, many are also falling short of diagnosing the root cause accurately — or maybe they have just become so entrenched in the current system that they cannot see it can be reinvented.
5/ Attributing the root cause of climate change to "market-based solutions" lacks nuance. The market is merely a collection of free agents that adapt to the most efficient way of operating in a given environment.
Unfortunately, that environment is currently the centralised fiat system with skewed incentive structures, which is why the current iteration of our market — which is not genuinely free — has adapted to operate most efficiently within that framework.
The “capitalism” or "market-based solutions" we know today resemble communism for the rich and capitalism for the poor. In other words, the word capitalism has been hijacked by those who seek fewer regulations and lower taxes to continue benefiting from the system's inherent flaws. In a genuinely free market, many of these individuals would have to reinvent themselves as their line of work adds zero value to the economy.
Under the fiat environment, increasing regulation and taxes is absolutely necessary, but it's at best only a short-term solution.
6/ In a sound money environment, the precise incentives recognised as problematic today are reversed. In such an environment, the market — which would then be genuinely free because it would not have a structural bias — would naturally align with long-term, sustainable practices.
We all strive for the same goal: a sustainable planet. However, the notion that "if we could all just unite this one time for the common goal of saving the planet" may be inspiring but is insufficient if it assumes that a single central entity, if only given full mandate, can outsmart the collective intelligence of all the world's citizens with a “wave of its magic wand”.
The concept of unity by concentrating power in one central entity overlooks how every organism on Earth has adapted to an unpredictable future for billions of years, as it is akin to putting all eggs in the same basket. Survival, whether for mosquitoes, elephants, or humans, has never depended on uniform agreement — that is an impossible standard to meet that only ends up in compromises and insufficient actions — but rather on embracing diversity of thought, allowing free agents to act autonomously in their respective environments.
The point is that we must restore the economic environment in which the marketplace of ideas operates; only then will the full collective intelligence of the world's citizens be directed towards our better judgement. In fact, by doing so, we automatically activate and lever the entire world population towards the goal of environmental sustainability.