Toxic Economics and Solar Currency

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Toxic Economics

How it impacts your wallet, your community and the environment

Who am I and Why Am I here?

I am a mother of two young children and want to a healthy place for my great grandchildrenI’m passionate about ethical financeI’ve been involved in sustainable economics for nearly

two decades

What Are Ecosystem Services?

Crop pollination Oxygen

Climate regulation

Watershed Services

Biodiversity

The benefits nature provides

System in Crisis

90% of global ecosystems are in

collapse

Extinction rates are 1,000 x higher than

any time in fossil history.

Human life depends on healthy ecosystems

Humans are consuming and

destroying ecosystems.

Ecosystem Economic ImpactOur economy depends on ecosystems

Our economy mandates growth!

Growth is a fundamental aspect of a “healthy economy”

GDP is a measure of economic growth

Humans can’t produce value without ecosystems

To replace what ecosystems do for us, it would cost $33 trillion, nearly twice global gross product (the value of total global economic activity).

Stocks and Flows

Our fuel stocks are finite

How do we change? System Solution• Only reclaiming our

understanding will solve this• Seeing the whole system• Having courage to

restructure the systems

Blame• We have been blaming

externally• Some “solutions” have

created bigger problems• Nobody deliberately creates

the problems

Two Types of Toxic Systems

Structural

Deceptive

How to identify a toxic system:

Lack of integrity

Deception is present

Exponential growth is at the core

I was invited to a “Gifting Circle” called “Women Empowering Women”

A close group of women creating abundance together

Money

Sisterhood

Trusted Friend

A Toxic Mimic

When this

Is masked as this

What is a toxic mimic?

Or this

Hiding this!

Pyramids Increase the Divide Between Haves and Have-nots!

12%

88%

Gifting Circle Profit Distribution

Women who profit

Women who lose their money

At some point, the circle must collapse, leaving 88% without ever receiving a gift. Not exactly equitable.

Network Marketing (MLMs)

People who profit2%

People who lose their

money98%

MLM Profit Distribution

Inevitably all exponential growth curves go up and down

1 4 7 10 13 16 19 22 25 -

200,000

400,000

600,000

800,000

1,000,000

1,200,000

Number of Circles

Number of Circles

Can’t the economy just grow forever?

Growth That Exceeds Resource Capacity Always Leads to Collapse!

Population doubling time for

the Gifting Circle is 6 months.

Global population doubling time is approximately

25 years.

Not enough women exist to meet demand for new

participants

But isn’t abundance infinite?

In the non-physical realm, abundance

is infinite, for example:

Love = infiniteJoy = infinite

The physical world is finite: We are

limited by population,

economy, etc.

It’s exciting to live in a finite world. It causes us to be more creative!

How to identify a toxic system:

Lack of integrity

Deception is present

Exponential growth is at the core

Money and Banking: The biggest pyramid scheme

Debt-based currency with interest rate assumes infinite exponential growth!

The structure lacks integrity

The Biggest Deception

The Federal Reserve

Bank

It isn’t “federal” – it isn’t part of

the government. It’s a privately

held company.

It doesn’t have reserves . . . It creates money out of thin air.

Just like the “Gifting Circle” isn’t a GIFT or a CIRCLE!

The house of cards inevitably will collapse!

There ArePlenty of Alternatives

Independent Local Currencies

Idaho has a time bank . . . The value of any system or currency is dependent on the number of users!

Digital Currencies

How Does Bitcoin Work?

We have one steady energy input

Fossil fuels are historic stored solar energy. We are borrowing from the past . . . and destroying our future.

To have a future that is conducive to human life, we need a economy that is pegged to the ability for humans to use energy from the sun.

SolarCoin is a digital currencyBacked by solar output from photovoltaic solar panels

Each MWh of electricity will reward the owner with §1 SLR

The Process of Getting SolarCoin

SolarCoin helps our planet!

Solar can meet our energy needs

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THANK YOU!

Contact me!

www.green-ideas.com@amberbieg via twitter

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