Biology
informs basic economic laws. Fundamental economics are biological in
nature. Thomas Malthus made a formula that a bacteriologist might
have made concerning growth medium and bacteria growing in it.
Malthus foresaw that bacteria or people living in a finite growth
medium (such as a petri dish or planetary surface) would increase and
multiply until consuming all available food and growth material
before perishing. Malthus made in effect an early argument for
ecological sustainability. Mankind hasn't yet achieved ecological
sustainable growth and dabbles around the edges with zero population
growth and intensive food cultivation technology.
Ricardo
made a kind of derivative economics argument from Malthus paradigm of
population growth within a non-sustainable growth medium. He believed
that real estate was finite and therefore as population increased the
value of real estate would increase. He also thought that population
would increase with available food supply until the food supply was
exhausted and the population crashed. That is still a biology-based
economic theory.
Humanity
in some senses was fairly primitive until quite recently. Two
centuries ago most of humanity were illiterate and pre-electric.
Economic theories were just advanced a little beyond biological
factors concerning population, growth medium, trade and technology
that would permit a healthy population. Social scientists including
economists were trying to manage the condition and even happiness of
the human social members of the biosphere. Little regard was given
unto exhausting the growth medium. Instead, the globe was searched
and exploited for growth media in the most abundant and exploitable
state. Technological investment and development continued to pursue
the most solid r quantitatively plentiful directions with qualitative
methods of technology following along. Industry was about steam
engines then alternative energy sources for engines. Automotive
engine technology became mature and over-mature continuing with
fossil fuels into a global warming era of which they were prime
contributors.
Self-driving
cars of the near future energized with electric engines and batteries
are a mildly revolutionary upgrade to the engine technology adapted
to making mass social life comfortable and efficient. An example is
that of self-driving transport vehicles for retired people that use
best route algorithms for planning and transporting a dozen
passengers or so to their destinations with the common carrier. A
more ominous adaptation is that of military vehicles.
Self-driving
military vehicles for all branches of services comprise a revolution
in the art of war. Imagine the river-jungle war with self-driving jet
skies with night visions and silent propulsion journeying a river to
hunt insurgents with a variety or weapons and even detachable flying
drones. Perhaps the bottom unit of the unit would contain fuel and
weapons while the upper part could detach and fly to hunt day or
night before returning to hover and refuel. Maybe the entire unit
could submerge and rest inactive on the river bed.
Army
transport vehicles in Iraq that were self-driving could have
transported weapons, supplies such as fuel or batteries with no
chance foe improvised explosive unit combat casualties. Self-driving
scout vehicles could have hunted for insurgents and defended roads
against insurgents planting mines. Convoys with soldiers hidden in
just one of five self-driving vehicles could have over-watch the
weapons units of the other vehicles launching a variety of opposition
force culling devices without far more safely. In some cases soldiers
at a distant base could operate self-driving hunter vehicles that can
have more effect armor without a crew compartment. The evolution of
civilian and military technology within a system designed at the core
for enabling the optimal health of the biological members reflects
the loss of perspective that some contemporary social and economic
theorists have about economics. Some believe that economics follow
entirely man-made laws, and in that regard they are entirely wrong.
Biological laws underpin the economics laws that have arisen from
them.
Since
ecological sustainability is the primary law of economics, mankind
will remain primitive until he has moved to a higher level of
transforming areas without biological life (such as the moon of the
Earth) into exospheres that sustain biologically human life. The age
of the gentiles may therefor be unfulfilled until the gentiles have
converted the Milky Way and perhaps every other galaxy into
exospheres able to support biologically human life. Sustaining entire
galaxies in a continuum supportive of and sustaining human life would
be a challenge for economic methods and technological innovation, yet
it is possible.
Humanity
may rise to the challenge and overcome its petri- dish paradigm of
ecospheric non-sustainability. Human economic systems are no more
than ethics systems for applying the biological imperative. Some are
less efficient than others, and each should be the most suitable and
effective for the era.
