Humans are an integral part of the ecology of the planet.
Much of the theory that LETS is a positive construct relies on the idea of creating community as necessary and good. This was listed higher that the economic advantages of gaining work and access to more goods and services. It is necessary for people to take a measure of personal responsibility for their actions. In his paper Society and Ecology, Bookchin argues that this does not mean that all people are equally responsible for environmental degradation because not all people are equal in their power to effect environmental and social change. Most people are in occupations out of need which are not freely chosen and are the product of social arrangement that ordinary people have no control over.