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You're solving the wrong problem.

That's just an inefficient, roundabout way to manage a environmental legal defense team (will lawyers accept crypto-Monopoly money?). But such legal defenses are actually quite ineffective (by design!) at preventing ecological harm, even when they win the lawsuit.[1]

[1] https://www.linktv.org/shows/thomas-linzey-earth-at-risk-201...

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I beg to differ. Exactly as shown your video, environmental protection is currently mainly led as an element of public policy. Hence, when it conflicts with economic and individuals' interests there is not much weight to preserve regulations and budgets.

The approach taken in recent years consist in creating or empowering an entity to represent of those interests. The more legitimate and the more economically robust is this entity, the more difficult it will be to act against its interests.

It is imperfect, but I think that this approach should be explored when existing regulations consistently fail

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