Greening the Microeconomy

Around the world capitalism is distorted, our planet is among the victims. But constraining, often costly, macro-economic policies to tackle the resulting problems can cast climate campaigners against regular people. They too have been unbalanced by destabilized economies and must focus on short-term household issues. It is hard to care about intergenerational justice if you don't know how you will feed your kids tonight.

 

Green New Deals offer job creation, perhaps universal income. But they can be seen as slow to impact lower-skilled households, and out of step with growing anti-government sentiment amid fears of an inflationary public debt crisis. Voters everywhere are enraged by today's economic structures, mistrust officials and embrace anti-green politicians.

 

This paper outlines how any government could initiate radical - privately funded and run - new markets across the base of their economy. Those markets tangibly increase affordability, stability and household income. They also inherently incentivize localization, circularity of resources and lean new services. 

 

This policy costs taxpayers nothing and requires no constraints on anyone's activity; it just widens choices of economic models for those dissatisfied with current options.