>Now, there's no reason to innovate because someone spends big bucks to actually do what everyone else is lying about. This statement just doesn't make sense.

>Now, there's no reason to innovate because someone spends big bucks to actually do what everyone else is lying about. This statement just doesn't make sense. If we punish actors who cheat the incentive is to innovate towards meeting the goal. If there's no mandate, and no punishment then there's no reason to innovate in a direction that protects the commons. There's simply no market mechanism for protecting the commons that works in practice.