How does a participatory economy protect the environment?

Originally published at: How does a participatory economy protect the environment? - Participatory Economy

Both market economies and command-planning economies are and were poor stewards of the natural environment (to put it mildly).  Theorists of market economies, for example, relegated the natural environment to the category of “externalities”, which is shorthand for “things we ignore and don’t need to worry about”. This is proving to be woefully shortsighted as…