
Liberty is really a simple thing, although difficult to come by.
It consists in freedom to choose or refuse one thing at a time.
C H Douglas, Social Credit
If we mean to leave something of ourselves for our children we better in the first place leave them a planet. We need to calculate society's value in terms of carbon dioxide created since this will establish the pre-eminence of local commodities over commodities that have come from a distance after millions of years of geological processing has been expended in a second. We need to implement Buckminster Fuller call for a time-energy accounting system of kilowatt hours, watt hours and watt seconds of work. In such a system the burning of fossil

fuels would be seen for the criminal waste that it is.
The only legitimate interest in the transactions of individual members of society to society in general is in knowing the summation of their values and their areas of activities, we need this information in order to calculate how much society's allowance should be set at.