ABSTRACT
Ecological living will almost certainly involves a steady-state, or slowly growing, economy. If ecological living is done right, it should involve less production because goods will use fewer resources, and they will be more durable and recyclable. As people have more free time, they will have the freedom to become what they want to be and to make ecological living what they want it to be. The ideas behind ecological living can be considered a branch of environmentalism. As ecological living leads to less extraction and more recycling at the local level, the amounts of resources shipped around the world will decrease. Importing most of consumer goods because they can be made with cheap labor somewhere else will decrease rapidly, as the incentives that will keep an economy in ecological living will also encourage more domestic manufacturing. Earth’s resources are very unevenly distributed, and all are required in each country’s economy.
