There is plenty of talk about the environment and how we are not doing things the right way. The solutions though, don't seem conducive to a happy or even efficient way out of the mess.
For the most part the main proposals reduce to restriction in different ways. In consumption via taxation, or CO2 points in the use of credit (Mastercard is testing this). In travel, whether it is with protected areas or green passports. And the list goes on. They all have the same theme though: lets impose coercive rules and regulations that limit expansion, while keeping the destructive behaviors untouched. The natural tendency of every living being is to expand. Putting a cork to the situation will only make it explode.
On the other hand, it's clear that expansion unchecked is invasive, and Nature has embedded a system of checks and balances that always resolve the problem (often tragically for the offender).
So to self-impose restrictions before falling off the cliff seems reasonable enough. But doing so without changing invasive behaviors by others more effective is the reasoning of a very limited mind. If we think further, it becomes clear that said behavior is counterproductive.
Fortunately for us there is a way to solve the core problem and avoid tragedy.
The keyword is cooperation.
Cooperation is in the heart of permaculture. Cooperation with the environment, but also with other people and the community.
The 3 core principles of permaculture are: Earth care, People care, and Fair share.
The word Permaculture was coined by Bill Mollison and means Permanent Agriculture.
Permanent agriculture seeks to develop systems that allow for long term (ideally unlimited) inhabitance of a place.
For fifty years, starting from the basic ideas of cooperation and observation, he first and the people he trained later on developed systems that would allow humanity to move towards the next level in evolution: from children who expect others to solve their mess to adults who nurture themselves and the environment.
This is in the core of the conversation about freedom, in which crypto has an important role. Children need supervision because they are not able to take responsibility of themselves. Adults can exercise freedom because they have developed responsibility--please note that is is not necessarily attached to age.
Is permaculture the answer? I think it's a possible answer. One that is good enough so solve our present situation and it's way way better to what governments have proposed so far.
Thanks for reading.
All ideas and comments are highly appreciated.
Img: I made it in Canva.