People really think humanity operates on some kind of fixed physical properties, when everything we rely on in modern society is not real. Borders are not real, the value we place on a human life is not real, the stocks and bonds arn't real.
They're all relative relationships with historical and future promises, reliant upon the trust we place in the means of proof and veracity, all of which are entirely human figments.
Nerds trying to fix problems that nerds seem to have created a wind on will go nowhere.
This not a problem of fixed economies of precious metals. This is entirely about what form of governance can tackle climate change, and the zeit geist has determined fascism everywhere, zombie apocolypse where huamnity needs to be as brutal as possible will win.
Europe is now the "heros" of the zombie apcolypses interacting with the "evil" humans who want to brutalize everyone into either submission or death.