ROI Can’t Save Us: Why Today’s Money Fails at Humanity’s Biggest Problems

We don’t lack ideas or tools to clean up; we lack a monetary logic that funds non-ROI necessities at planetary scale. If we keep asking capital markets to solve problems that don’t return capital, we will keep getting underinvestment. The path forward is to redefine what we’re willing—and able—to finance, with mechanisms built for public goods rather than profits alone.