What I find difficult to understand is the lack of creativity we have put into this. Seems we’re just immobilized from the doom. We need to make keeping a low carbon/water footprint into a reward system. We can invoke this system simultaneously with the current mad system and keep building it till it reaches exponential. The currency can be backed by marijuana seeds or vegetable seeds — a backing that helps humanity (gold doesn’t help much of humanity and is extractive) Growing plants, using renewable energy, buildings soil — these practices would earn rewards. The beauty of this is that we could also eliminate the prison/penalty systems that have lived way past their prime. It’s time to send them to the compost heap. But we can be building this system up in the meantime.