No government can plan all that - much less implement and enforce it. Only if we make prices tell the ecological truth can we harness the power of the market for the environment. People exchanged ideas with Roodman over the prospects of getting there from here. Such a campaign does not require people to forget or turn a blind eye to the fact that a great many businesses are currently destroying the earth through their actions, whether knowing or unknowing. What it does require is a belief that common ground can, in time, be built with enough people in business for a strong enough coalition to emerge to make it possible for citizens, governments and businesses to actually build an ecologically sustainable society and fair ways to pay for it.
Human kind has a long way to go to achieve a sustainable way of living.