The good news is that entrepreneurial energy can help to remedy some environmental harms (and not just with masks and bottled water) if the incentives are drawnright.
But others, such as the right to go about the city with a drawn sword, the right to be hanged by a silken rope, the right to drive sheep over London Bridge, the right to be drunk and disorderly in the City, the right to be married in St Paul's Cathedral and buried with the City, may always have been in the realms of folklore.