Peter this all nice and touchy-feely, maybe we all need some of this sometimes, thanks for posting.
But I think you know as well as I do that the way the economy works is crtical to our current global energy problem, and we will only fix it by identifying exactly what is physically wrong with it, and putting it right, before it is too late. After that there is all the time we could ever hope for, to enjoy touchy-feely.
All of our bodies need a constant srream of Joules to enable us to live. Money is the mechanism most of us depend on to bring us those Joules, so money is the end mechanism of transportation of energy for all of humanity.
Currently the Joules transported to us by money comes from finite stocks on Earth, which are now depleting to the point that further use of them is becoming hazardous.
So we need money to now begin transporting to us our Joules of energy from outside Earth, where that energy is relatively unlimited, we literally can't exhaust it.
You might notice this is a very similar stage in life, species-wise, as a single plant just starting to form its first leaves, or a human baby being born, or a chicken hatching from an egg.
All of them, and us as a species are being born, by moving from the closed energy-environment of our mother host, to the relatively energy-unlimited environment, external to our mother host.
The baby continues to suck all of its Joules from its mother until it is literally plucked off, and forced to understand food from the environment external to its mother, handed to it on a plate for free, no sucking needed, contains even more Joules than it ever had from its mother, the Joules it needs to grow to adulthood.
Right now we might be like the baby, crying, not knowing the pleasures coming next, the taste of the food on the plate.
I hope maybe that helps see a different, more pleasurable way to think about progressing things with the economy.
To me the plant is the one to learn from, we just formed our first leaves by way of solar farms all over Earth.
Now all we need is for money to do the same thing as happens in the energy transport mechanism in plants (nutrients). It has to change function, from transporting energy sucked up from Earth in the infant part of its life, to energy flowing downards from its leaves to Earth in the adult part of its life. That way it adds value to Earth all of its adult life, paying back the energy deficit it ran up as an infant, many thousands of times over.
I don't see any reason we can't do the same as a species, other than human nature.
In the end it comes down to a kind of battle of wills between human nature, and nature itself.
I have faith we will learn, just like any other baby :)