Honestly nobody actually cares what economists and economics have to say about the environment because on one hand if you care about the environment you know economics is largely pseudoscience for the ruling class, astrology but 1000% less cool…

…and on the other hand if you don’t care about the environment and are the kind of person who doesn’t think economists are full-of-shit-fake-nerds that will spin any narrative the rich want, hamfistedly twisting numbers and jargon into the rhetorical equivalent of a balloon animal, you are going to look at economists talking about the environment shrug your shoulders and think “cool sounds like an opportunity to make some profit”.

People are really sure there are tons of people between these two categories and I think it is a dangerously distracting mirage to believe in.

There is nothing and no one in the apparatus of economics that has the power and will to slow down the climate apocalypse even remotely, since fundamentally the predictive power of economics (insofar as it has any real ability to do so) is existentially dependent upon conceptually and materially maintaining the very system that is causing mass extinction, habitat loss and catastrophic climate change.