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.

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.

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