If the two disagree, the answer is ready. It's energy. Follow the money? Well, if you want. Ok. But really, you'll follow the energy.
Wild ecosystems do not engage in any monetary trade, yet they are massively active and complex economies.
Capitalism is not the only economy that works. Wilderness is an economy that works. It's more brutal than capitalism. And capitalism is more brutal than whatever will replace it or augment it.
What we must learn from wild ecosystems is that energy is the foundation, not human law, not philosophy, not divine commandments, not physical strength, not market valuations.
It's energy arranged as information.
That cannot change. Everything else can.
