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It’s not that you can’t build a second floor on a house, it’s that you can’t sacrifice the foundation to do it. A new economic model that is sustainable within the parameters of the natural world would build an economic house that continually replenished the foundation and the first floor and then built a reasonably sized second floor that stayed connected with it’s foundation through it’s connection to the first floor.
The foundation of all economic activity is the health of the soil and the water used to produce food for human consumption. So the first principal of all economic activity should preserve and support this base capacity of our environment.
Transitional phase economy would be a suck down, push out economy that repays the environmental debt generated over the last 300 years. A starting point for this process could be accomplished without any restructuring of the economic system by redeploying resources that are already allocated as government expenses.
Reallocation of spending priorities from space and defense to environment
Time
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| Dollars | | Now | NASA today
| $16,792,000,000 | Military today
| $522,000,000,000 | Russia + China military spending today
| $124,400,000,000 | | | | | | Year 1 | 100% NASA spending
| $16,792,000,000 | + 5% transfer of military spending
| $26,100,000,000 | Total 1st year
| $42,892,000,000 | | | | | | Year 2 | + 5% transfer of military spending | $24,795,000,000
| Total 2nd year
| $67,687,000,000 | | | | | Year 3
| + 5% transfer of military spending | $23,555,250,000 | | Total 3rd year | $91,242,250,000 | | | | | | Year 4 | + 5% transfer of military spending | $22,377,487,500 | | Total 4th year | $113,619,737,500 | | | | | Year 5
| + 5% transfer of military spending
| $21,258,613,125 | Total 5th year
| $134,878,350,625 | | | | | | Year 6 | + 5% transfer of military spending
| $20,195,682,469 | | Total 6th year | $155,074,033,094 | | | | | | Year 7 | + 5% transfer of military spending | $19,185,898,345 | | Total 7th year | $174,259,931,439 | | | | | | Year 7 Baseline | Reduction in military spending | 30% | | Reduction on NASA space spending | 100% | | Ending military budget | $364,532,068,561 | | Ratio of U.S. military spending to Russia + China | 2.93 to 1.00 | | Ongoing annual investment in restoring the environment and decreasing greenhouse gas emissions | $174,259,931,439 | | | | |
After achieving a baseline level of restructured spending based on increasing needs for environmental restoration and energy infrastructure redesign and reinvestment a period of evaluation should occur. Transfer of military spending can be increased frozen or decreased depending on the status of military and environmental threats. If decreased spending on the military reduced the defense spending of our potential enemies and reduced resource motivated tensions related to increased demand for oil then transfer of military spending could accelerate. If geopolitical tensions are growing along with military spending of potential enemies then spending transfers can be slowed or frozen
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Economic System