The world's environmental problems is ultimately a single over-consumption problem. We consume too much: * fossil fuels * trees * fish * food & fertiliser

The world's environmental problems is ultimately a single over-consumption problem. We consume too much: * fossil fuels * trees * fish * food & fertiliser & antibiotics It'll be difficult to convince others to spend less. We're currently taxed on how much we extract the earth's resources for other's use. I think to solve the consumption problem this is the wrong way to go. It would align incentives more to tax consumption instead. This will better encourage people to not spend. Of course this goes against what the ECB and the Federal reserve's objective, to increase GDP and thus, consumption, reducing our forests, increasing our CO2 output, and destroying our fisheries. The world's capital and political system is aligned the wrong way around in creating a sustainable system to manage humankind's allocation of production and consumption. I think it will be too difficult to change the world, and the only thing I can do is to encourage my own frugality.