One of the ways to move toward ecological sustainability is to produce as much locally, reducing transportation costs and pollution from the transportation of goods globally. It is a paradox that President Trump’s very antipathetic economic policies of sustained tariffs to stimulate domestic industrial production entails a plank from ecological economic methods of reducing global greenhouse gassing and other unsustainable, deleterious environmental policies.
Some future President may be able to capitalize on the new paradigm of national production and graft in to the economic tree, additional environmental economic policies that will adapt the national economy to environmental economic policies. The pathetic job creation numbers for July of just 73,000 jobs created due to Trump’s disrupting tariffs are a harbinger of what will occur when a significant ecological economic policy is implemented. Between that change and the disrupting effects of generative and super-intelligent generative artificial intelligence on the workforce that will put much of the workforce out of work, the need for a national basic income for all citizens earning fewer than the national average income is clear.
Americans will need to find a new way of ecological sustainability in the era where old economic policies have reached their maximum life span of several thousand years. The new policies will need to provide adequate income for citizens to live reasonably well and secure as they seek to find some way to apply themselves to tasks of life when machine, robots and artificial intelligence take over much of the work. Eventually the entire planet will need to adapt that way too. It is necessary for some large nation to lead the way.
