Kim Stanley Robinson proposes this in his recent novel, The Ministry for the Future. He mostly skips the details around how it would actually work though, beyond needing an enormous amount of human labor for verification. In real life, that would break the decentralization of it.
Remove too much and you wipe out all life on earth by starving plants.
how would you prove that it has happened?
Atmospheric data, pay an average to each person in the country.