But that's now what she says. What she describes is simple cost-benefit analysis known since 1950's which basically allows you to assign natural resources financial value to demonstrate that their brainless usage or pollution generates costs of the economy. This is precisely how acid rains were stopped using cap & trade - industry was made to pay for sulphur oxides they previously just dumped into the air "because air is free and unlimited". Tokenizing seems to be just another iteration of the US & US obsession on charging for everything "so that the mob doesn't get used to getting anything for free".