Preventing Year Zero — Can We Just Buy Back the Earth?

Richard Scotford
The Startup
Published in
4 min readDec 8, 2018

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Environmentally things are getting much worse. We’re running out of time. So, why can’t we start buying back the Earth?

It’s a crazy idea, an idea so big that initially it seems implausible. However, the predominate, economic rules of our dysfunctional world suggest that it might just be possible.

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Richard Scotford
The Startup

Writer. Bitcoiner. Hong Konger. Staunch defender of global democracy. Noisy-muser on all things China. Runner. Tree Grower