The Stone Age came to an end not for a lack of stones, and the Oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil. - A PREAMBLE TO CARBONOMICS

“CARBON IS THE ONLY CURRENCY OF A GREEN ECONOMY” 

In a sustainable green world, Carbon budgets would replace monetary budgets; a living economy (based primarily on Trees) would replace a dead economy (based on fossil fuels); and, sustainable, regional Wood economies would replace an unsustainable, global economy. Carbon would be an Earth-based currency in comparison to ecocidal currencies such as petro-dollars, the yen or gold. There is no such thing as a steady state economy, only a steady state climate. A steady state climate can be created only by a Carbon based economy not a cash based economy. Just as economists meticulously measure the demand and supply sides of a monetary economy so greens will have to do the same for the Earth’s Carbon spiral if they are to protect the Earth’s life-sustaining processes.