
A New Economics is Required
A new economics is required that takes into account the true costs of our economic actions. These true costs have been difficult to assess historically and are easy to ignore. In fact many businesses would rather they were ignored, with good reason. Someone else always ends up paying for those costs then through public spending.
In the science of economics these costs are often referred to as externalities. Here are some examples:
Pollution, Noise, Human health problems, Biodiversity loss and Erosion.

Case Study – Soya Beans
Soya for human food
Soya for farm animal food
Biofuel, oils and other
5%
75%
20%
Soya is a staple food and a great source of protein
Feeding animals with soya to feed humans is incredibly inefficient
- CO2 produced by shipping
- CO2 emitted by fertiliser production
- CO2 emitted by burning a hectare of rainforest
- Environmental cost of destruction of a hectare of rainforest
- Tax for destruction of former rainforest
How do we Implement Change? – if a New Economics is Required?
The Soy Moratorium
https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/soybeans
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A New Economics is Required – This is a Temporary Measure
When I say a temporary measure Im probably talking hundreds of thousands of years if not millions. Do nothing and that period will likely shorten to hundreds of years, maybe less.