The planetary footprint term in the denominator accounts for the externalities.Alphaville wrote: ↑Fri Nov 27, 2020 10:34 amok, but if our monetary system does not account for externalities, any amount is more or less perpendicular to carbon emissions.
Of course one can spend the $6750 in more or less destructive matters. However, gaming the number is largely irrelevant in the aggregate because once spent the subsequent spenders of that money quickly converge on the average representation.
E.g. you spend $1000 on locally grown organic apples, but the person you paid then spends those $1000 on a new TV, refilling his truck, some beef flown in from New Zealand, ...