Anthropocoin: A future-to-present value transfer mechanism

Abstract: In order to bring the value of future sustainability to today we must base the most basic tool of our economy, money, on it. As the most valuable asset we posess, our future sustainability is increasingly being eroded today by the stranded assets of tomorrow. Drawing on insights from Satoshi Nakamoto, the paper proposes a new currency: data driven and science backed algorithms control supply, thereby linking value to the scarcity of elements that threaten the main planetary boundaries. This ensures a gamification of action towards achieving future sustainability and enables important feedback loops that link our human economics to ecological facts.

1. Introduction: A Ponzi scheme with the Future: The three A’s

We live in the age of 3A’s:

great Acceleration,

ecological Armageddon

and the Anthropocene.

At the heart of the climate crisis is an incompatibility of our current economic system with the planetary carrying capacity. Growth in the former comes at the destruction of the latter, or so it has been thus far.

This is nothing else than a big Ponzi scheme at the expense of the future. Legacy carbon intensive and other polluting infrastructure…