let
this time of reset
result in a carbon economy.
it’s a time of major reset for ourselves, for our communities, for our planet. with fewer planes in the sky, with fewer cars on the road, with business not trying to make things to for us to buy, with us not having to buy things that aren’t essential, we’ve somehow inadvertently managed to #give the earth a break. birds can hear themselves and we can too.
imagine if instead of an economy based on stocks and shares and bonds and gdp, we had an economy based on co2 emissions. if we used the mechanisms operating today, that would mean that someone would have to make a market, not unlike the way a bank will underwrite a company before they ipo: the price doesnt fall too low. if the carbon markets were underwritten, then you could borrow against future earnings; income would be predictable. now those solar panels on your roof really could be making money.
let’s not let this crisis go to waste. it’s obvious to the thousands of people who are one major illness away from bankruptcy, or one paycheck away from starvation and/ or homelessness, that the money economy doesn’t really work. what society do you want to live in when the dust settles: the one you just had, or a new one?