Although States cannot "legally" issue their own currencies under the current system, if States left the Union they could. In addition, currently it's not illegal for companies or groups to issue some type of "currency" or scrip. I think we're going to start seeing some of that in the next several years. And, bartering – lots of bartering.

Excellent points, all! Congratulations! You are awake. This is all true. Intro to Geology USED to teach, rightly, that Earth's atmosphere has NEVER been stable, as evidenced by the rock types, fossils, etc., AND that there have been at least 5 major "ice ages" before now as well as at least 6 major "extinction events", and that the atmospheric CO2 content has been over 3,500 ppm… When the CO2 content was that high, the Earth was literally a jungle – coincidence/

Yes. And, because we're actually cooling, NOT warming, and plants struggle more in cooler temps to survive, grow, and reproduce, we actually need MORE CO2…

Good point. Although the Little Ice Age has been over for some time – recall the much warmer periods during the 1930's, which the IPCC has now "disappeared", along with the Little Ice Age, via statistical manipulation… They call it "smoothing" the temperatures – what it is is outright manipulation in sad and obvious attempts to bolster their lies that we're warming… We're NOT warming – we've been cooling since roughly 2014 – from NASA satellite data – and will be on the cooler side for likely decades more, owing to being in a lower solar activity cycle, and several more are anticipated after this back to back. And, even if we were warming, higher CO2 does NOT lead to scorching heat – as it's a "greenhouse gas", along with the much more abundant water vapor in the atmosphere, the warmth would occur with higher humidity… Just like in the aptly named greenhouses.

And the trucks and planes and ships – and drones – moving things all over the world, and to your doorstep, will all be entirely "carbon" free also… Right… If anyone truly believes that, I've got a bridge in Arizona they should buy.

Yes… And, CO2 is NOT a "pollutant" as the psychos in the UN & IPCC (an arm of the UN via the UNFCCC, which the COP's are organized/led by, such as the latest, COP27) have been telling us… It is literally plant food.

And there is no “peak oil” problem; never was. Peak Oil suits the large corporations to leverage politicians.

How these ideas get into the public domain without proof (and often without discussion) is beyond me.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/08/120_years_of_climate_scares.html
120 years of failed climate change predictions, and we're still talking about it.
and Peak Oil has come and gone several times in my lifetime, but somehow never arrived.

Cryptos will continue to exist is because it’s not up to the governments. They may wish they could ban them, but the simple fact is they can’t.

The reason I believe 😉 this is because I think the global financial system is near the end of the road, the entire industrialized, top-down, centralization governance structure no longer functions in the new decentralized paradigm (nation states vs network states). They may try in some places and even succeed for awhile, but overall they’re hanging on for dear life and on the cusp of being swept into the dustbin of history (when I talk like this I mean it in years or decades increments). Covid actually accelerated the decentralization wave throughout society, as opposed to solidifying centralized state power.

As far as the gold ban goes, if you read something like Ken Ferguson’s “Confiscation: Gold as Contraband” – you’ll realize that compliance was very low. The smart money kept their gold, only relatively small numbers of the rabble complied. We’d see a similar effect today, even more so.

Try telling a pension fund, an endowment, a family office or any other fiduciary overseeing hundreds of millions or billions of dollars that they’ll have to start storing their liquidity in CBDCs so that apparatchiks and bureaucrats can have the ability to take it away from them in a keystroke. Just watch where their capital goes then (it isn’t going to be into the banking system, that’s for sure).