Standing on a Mountain of Gold

In the Carbon Economy.

Our society as a whole values things differently than nature.

As the remnants of the industrial age we live in, our ideal to turn carbon as quickly and violently as possible, into kinetic energy. Apparently, internal combustion is the apex of creation, and worth sending our country’s youth to die for.

Some carbon not volatile enough to detonate and push pistons is so unworthy that people pay to get rid of it. Tree crews dishing out cash to dump truckloads of wood chips. 40% of paper waste in America is recycled, and it still makes up the majority of landfills.*

Nature builds and rebuilds the entire living world through carbon cycles.

As co-creators with nature, carbonaceous material is precious to us. In a life-based economy, it is the defacto currency.