Critical Factors in Environmental Sustainability
Environmental sustainability depends on a certain combination of environmental and social structures.
The basic structures we need are:
To constantly monitor our impact on the environment.
To take action when warning signs are first noticed.
To adapt our economy as necessary to solve the problem.
To adapt our economy even more if necessary, when further information comes in.
To keep our economy moving slowly enough that its economic momentum won’t outrun our environmental foresight.
To use renewable resources only as fast as they’re renewed.
To use non-renewable resources only as fast as alternatives can be found to replace them.
And to pollute only as fast as the natural cycles of the world can break down the pollution and reclaim it.
Of course, doing all of this will require us to construct political systems that make doing these things possible. Those political systems would be Green Socialism.









