First of all, thank you for such an original and provocative article.

Have you read Ishmael, by Daniel Quinn? He makes the case — with which I agree — that our environmentally negative "urges" are cultural, not biological, that non-civilized peoples actually have 'balanced out what they have given and taken from the ecosystem'. That implies that Marx was right: the only future we have is for civilized peoples to adopt the ethos of non-civilized peoples (though he did not see the ecological environment as the grounds of that necessary cultural transformation).

My studies have taught me that the way forward is a better understanding of justice. In any nation in which that approach to justice were applied to the economy, total output would be governed, passively but effectively, by demographics. Currently, in all nations output must be maximized to maximize employment, income, and taxes. My (linked) paradigm would render that imperative obsolete.