But the converse is not true. Further, it is easily argued that the best capitalist these days is the honest environmental scientist, unencumbered by a vested interest. That person is truly concerned with protecting our capital - since capital, ultimately, is not money, but what money represents. Economics deals with money. In turn, goods represent the material world - or the gift of the creation.
Services represent the work of people - or humanity's gift of creativity.
Therefore, decisions about our use of money are normally based on how we regard the earth and on how we regard our work. When we comprehend the true significance of money as nothing less than a token representing the material world and our creative use of it, we should understand why it is so important that we use it wisely and sparingly, giving careful consideration to the generations that will inherit it from us. If the evidence gleaned from the environmental sciences clearly indicates that by our economic choices we are seriously abusing this creation gift, we ought to be ready to call for changes in such behavior and begin to address these issues with all our faculties. Certainly there will be controversy over how we do this, but there should be no controversy at all about our responsibility as intelligent, future-oriented individuals to do it.