Our institutions have been very successful at quickly pricing and then billing for harms arbitrarily defined by the  working model of the environment, but they have failed miserably to arrest environmental degradation by society and associated growing social costs. In this regard, failure is success by negative liability; especially, as the environment cannot be protected at all from life, an evolution that doesn't need a future or a purpose (constructive and  progressive development ­­that assuages human fear and greed), and the non-living world.

Humans need purpose and an always better future; therefore, the ordinary processes of evolution and the real world constraints on conversion of energy must be overcome, if only by a story. A story alone would be much less loading of an already overloaded environment than would be millions of tools and organizations wasting nature to protect it from millions of tools and organizations.