What the “ecological economists” have right is the idea that nature is ultimately the source of wealth

What the “ecological economists” have right is the idea that nature is ultimately the source of wealth and if we destroy nature we destroy future wealth, along with destroying many other things. This suggests, or should suggest, that endless growth as an economic philosophy can be unhealthy.

This also relates to the unhealthy dominance of economic forces. Yes we can have market's free or fair, but we cannot be dominated by markets as we have been in the West, which has largely destroyed the cultures and the nations of the West. Yes, free enterprise has raised the standard of living higher than any time in human history, but it can become that old root of all evil when it dominates well-bonded communities, local governments, ethnic cultures, and everything else.

Can this be changed? We have no choice if we want to continue living. We will be more “free” the more we restrict the power of Big Money/Big Business which has become a marauding international global state. Big Business claimed to be against the communists but they have promoted an international “brotherhood” and a border-less world as the communist did, which is just as impossible.

I think the change can be done without radical revolution and without rejecting the vision of the Founding Fathers. Human nature remains kin-centered, ethnocentric, local, even xenophobic, and group selection is still the primary unit of selection, and this relates directly to the separation of powers and states in the U.S. Constitution.

Libertarians usually don't embrace economic nationalism, and that's a problem with them, their philosophy of hypertrophied individualism has not absorbed the importance of the primary unit of group selection in successful survival, which is deeply ingrained in human nature. This means that libertarian decentralization will not be enough, if open border, free trade globalism remains. We require tariffs on foreign products to save manufacturing, and save jobs, and save lives, and save cultures that have been destroyed by globalism. Economic nationalism is not isolationism, or anti-technology, or anti-trade, or anti-free enterprise, endless growth as an economic philosophy has been unhealthy, and we must admit this.