I completely endorse the idea that as individuals we can solve the problem by changing our behavior. Really, we wouldn’t have to do without that much: minimizing burning lights, miles driven, and degrees of heating and cooling would do it. Like President Carter did on T.V. — which did more than even the hostages in Iran to tank his presidency — we can actually wear a sweater inside. We can use fans and use the AC only for sleeping [at 80 degrees (F.) I still need something over me, just not a comforter — and with a fan, anyone would].

It wouldn’t hurt sustainability — and would provide the means to eliminate unemployment, poverty, taxation, and public debt — if we also changed the institutional structure of our economic system, specifically the monetary system (which is the economy’s fuel injection system). With my proposed change to the monetary system total output would be governed, passively but effectively, by demographics — only. It would no longer be necessary to maximize output to minimize unemployment/maximize income and taxes.

To be clear, those outcomes would not require redistributing anything or any limits on income or property/wealth. Neither would they require any changes in economic behavior.

I understand that hearing about this idea from its author somehow undermines its credibility, but so it goes. Also, I freely admit that I am a better thinker than I am a writer.

All the same, I do have a Web site, www.ajustsolution.com. (I’ve been informed that the link doesn’t work, so the address would have to be typed.) I have also published relevant essays here on medium.com, such as “Extending Democracy to Our Capitalist Economy to Transform Our Society,” “A Cure for the Ills of Capitalism,” “The Revolutionary Monetary System That Can Save Civilization,” and , comprehensively, “People for Tolerance, Unite!” Those links do work.

I’ve already admitted I’m not much of a writer; I’ve already done the best I can. So please spare me critiques of form. A critique of substance (as opposed to whining about how hard it is to understand) is welcome. [I’ve been futilely beating this drum for decades; my cantankerousness is well earned.]