After reading your reply, I had a phrase bouncing around in my mind, but could not articulate it (on the tip of my tongue). So I perused your blog thinking it would come to me and it did.

Ah, glad to know that old machine helped, I'll take that as a compliment :)
I really should write that next article sometime soon...

We need to move beyond Moore's Law and apply whole cost accounting to Moore's Law. We need to get better at producing what we want without destroying our environment. So then we'd need to look at the cost of what we build to our environment and build that into the price of the product. I'm sure this is happening to some degree, but it will take a few generations to really get this sorted out.

Well, if there's one thing we can count on, humanity will find its refinement in itself and in its practices eventually. It's always been a case of trial-and-error in our self-discovery. What we are witnessing now is simply another milestone in said discovery. Like you said, it'll take a couple decades, maybe even a century or two, but we'll get there. There are those among us who would make sure of that.

With advances in whole cost accounting applied to our way of life, we can better sustain the environment and enjoy some prosperity.

Agreed. Just need to put ourselves into enough of a position of power to twist the arms of the magnate industrialists and politicians and get them to toe the line as well first. You know they'd rather keep things the way they are right now, with their crown jewel Scarcity sitting plush atop the production lines.