Longer Ladders Don't Get You To The Moon

The conventional economic principles and human behaviour paradigms are deeply entrenched ( arising from the Instinctive assumption that I must compete with others for resources and , once I start accumulatung wealth, pander to greeds well beyond needs) . Can anything be done from within this system ( inexorably leading to self destruction on a planetary scale) ? I liked some fairly new concepts like carbon credits and I have heard of "goodness" credit in a European country where credits are recorded for hours spent volunteering for elder care which can be redeemed later in kind. Can there be a mechanism to directly tax excess resource consumers and transfer benefits in a simple way to those being more considerate to nature and fellow humans ?

But even this is likely to be of impact. The author , i suppose , is hinting at some transformation in the human psyche ( listening to a uniquely different " music" ) which can alone change direction once a critical mass of people get transformed.Till then those pioneers will just do/be whatever that ( divine ?) music impels them to

...likely to be of little impact .. i meant , in the first line