Where Will It Stop? (Part I and II)

        When companies operate by non-green methods, the ecosystem will soon be destroyed. Ecosystems provide many great services to our planet and most services are unknown until the ecosystem is destroyed. When we lose a product or a service of that ecosystem, we have to either find a way to substitute it or learn to live without it. America is currently stuck in a trade deficit and will stay on that slippery slope if we keep destroying our natural ecosystems. With the destruction of our own natural ecosystems, we find ourselves with fewer and fewer resources to offer to other countries.  

(This shows the amount of tax put on companies generating pollution and America is last. Many Countries have yet to start this tax. graph from: http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2011/06/environmental-economics)

        Ecological economics has expanded from a result of the growing concern with the environment and the economy. Ecological economists insist that populations cannot overcome their environmental limitations and have constant economic growth. Economic growth has to stop somewhere and when it does then the resources will become depleted and the economies could go to ruins. When an economy incorporates these ideals, it is said to remain stable limiting growth and decline. This type of economy is called a steady-state economy. This is one of the only ways to have a self sufficient economy.

http://www.activistpost.com/2010/08/ten-reasons-to-become-self-sufficient.html