Science communication is an extremely important topic, and has become top of mind for academics. Events over the past few years have pointed towards severe disconnects between scientists, natural resource practitioners, and stakeholders of all shapes and sizes. This is extremely relevant because it has parallels to economic communicators like the Federal Reserve, and treasury who attempt to influence market spending behavior.

Quote from Ben Bernanke himself: ""I think monetary policy is 98% talk and 2% action, and communication is a big part."

How natural resource science is communicated also effects behavior in extremely critical ways. Rates of precipitation and flooding are making headlines almost yearly, as major rain events hit different watersheds. This headline coverage of natural (really man made) disasters in the US effects behavior across the entire Midwest, and it has consequences.

Field tiling is a practice whereby a farmer installs corrugated piping in trenches 3-6 feet below the soil surface. This facilitates efficient removal of soil moisture, and as we are finding out, acting as highways for unutilized agronomic nutrients. Due to how soil moisture behaves the installation of this drainage system has been shown to increase commodity row crop yields. This economic calculation by producers really spreads the use of tiling as a standard, due to the economic realities of running a farm in 2024.

My point is that natural resource communication is trending towards catastrophism in every single piece of literature I'm finding. This has drastic effects on people's behavior, and how stakeholders interact with natural capital stocks like farmland and forestland. Catastrophism is leading to terrible division, and worsening of natural resource capital degradation.

The upshot is that Bitcoin forces participation. It forces conservation of energy by returning true capitalism to markets. Markets that rely on sustainability of earth's natural capital.