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by Melting_Harps 1948 days ago
> Leave it to ecologists and other biodiversity experts? Not everything warrants an opinion from economists.

Exactly. Economists are impulsive and bend to the whim of fashion far too much, they will make up theories to suit their agenda and justify it with arcane sounding jargon, which is clear to see every time they speak. When you can actually read through the BS the IMF, Federal Reserve and ECB and all other central banks are nothing more than crooks with better tailors then your average thief.

When you understand how things like derivatives like CDO, MBS or (re)Hypothecation work and how they create massive risks in the financial system (2008) you soon realize this is the biggest con in Human History.

And that the IMF and World bank have so much more influence than perhaps the UN or G20 combined. And ALL OF THEM are guilty of of crimes against Humanity.

No, the World needs to realize this cohort has vested interests in keeping the World as it is is, which protects them and their class and often lends itself to depraved things that rely on Human exploitation, slave labour in the developing World, environmental disasters for resource/mineral extraction which lends itself to human trafficking and sex trafficking of minors for all to see: Jeffery Epstein was just the most high profile case.

Those Qanon imbeciles were filled with too much of Trump's BS tasting kool-aid to realize he was Jeffery Epstein's close friend who was tried and convicted for being a sex offender of children, and that Trump was implicated in that trial of molesting young children as he was part of their class.

The fact that most people still honestly think these people have any merit, let alone would be put in a compromising position to exposing them to crimes like that let alone ecocide, is the real problem.

No, the World has to move on from this suicidal fiat based ponzi scheme we call 'the traditional' fiat based economy, and it's priests (economists) in reality this what bitcoiners like me really want the most: for average people to lose complete confidence in the monetary system that keeps Humanity from flourishing with boom and bust models that entrench thier wealth more deeply with every passing crisis and makes reform entirely impossible since it's so entrenched, and would sooner destroy the World, itself and everyone within in before it reformed itself. Most don't even realize how much more sustainable our network and system is and actively seeks and creates renewable energy sources that would otherwise be impossible due to 'economists' opinion on value creation. We create auxiliary systems and wealth creation with out excess energy (gardens or plant nurseries are the most common), whereas the fiat system will burn off it's excess gasses in plain sight and then send countries to war based on this tired notion that securing oil makes us 'safe' and charges 4+ gallon in the US when oil in ~$60/barrel, it's so absurd...

Being an environmental activist for nearly 20 years, with a background in reformative and sustainable Ag (biodynamic), and a biology degree and nearly 10 years in fintech I can say with absolute confidence NO ONE should be able to make these violations on our environment justifiable: economists, politicians, Nation-State or otherwise. And these environmental violations (Ecocide) should come with at least lengthy prison time or penalty of death, not fines that simply add up to a cost of doing business which they never pay taxes on.

I wish public outrage and cancel culture seen on social media for the most feckless and pointless of things would be directed for environmental causes, because if they only understood the calamity and chaos the ensues by poisoning our ecosystems and how it can have domino effects in precipitating mass extinction events (like we're currently experiencing) they would stop with this BS pro-noun and divisive hateful SJW tirades and mob mentality and put their energy into an actual cause with meaning that may give them purpose in life: something I'm certain every single one of the lack.