This needs to be an arguably untried alternative -
Cue Chris Cook! ~Government budget deficits are not nearly as dangerous as the deficits we have created in vital and complex natural systems.~ Naomi Klein.
But it's not easy developing and proselytising a new paradigm if your livelihood depends on the old one. That is a risk and a sacrifice most cannot or will not make, usually because others depend on them.
I certainly didn't do what I did deliberately: I have never felt as though I have had a choice, really. "Any economic unit can emit money. The serious problem is to get it accepted" Hyman Minsky