A letter to the editor. Environmental destruction is rooted in the global money-based economic system, where production is driven by profit rather than human need. It claims that businesses must expand and compete to survive, leading to overproduction, resource depletion, and pollution. Even well-intentioned reforms—such as green technologies, regulations, or ethical consumer choices—are presented as insufficient, because they operate within the same system that prioritises growth and profitability over ecological balance. As long as money and markets dominate decision-making, the planet’s resources will continue to be exploited unsustainably.

The writer proposes replacing the money system entirely with a global society based on common ownership and production for use. In this model, goods and services would be produced directly to meet hum ...