the environmental tax; on the other hand, the state will only be able to finance small-scale compensation measures, due precisely to large industry's investments in energy savings. Whichever way you turn, the alternative is the same: either the environmental tax on energy stumbles over the problem of financing, or it is reduced to a zero-sum game and cannot realize its environmental objective. Under no circumstances will the structural system of money's valorization allow itself to be motivated by the subsystem of "politics", which constitutes its systemic function. An environmental "politics" is therefore a contradiction in terms, since the remedy is worse than the illness. In general it does not risk confronting the principle of the valorization of money, which constitutes the real problem. This contradiction is in itself nothing but the phenomenal form of the subjects' structural schizophrenia in the form of the commodity; it is thus manifested, as it effects the environmental question, in each individual of the commodity form, and not only in the great institutions structured in the commodity form. In the environmental crisis each individual money-earner sees the horizon of their interests dramatically fractured. The interest in money produced by the system obliges one to take part in the always-increasing destruction of nature, while the elementary interest in life and survival demands the overcoming of the logic of money. This latter interest, however, is in its essence transcendent of the system, and is only manifested by hypocritical evasions. The unhappy attempt to limit the environmental impact