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How to satisfy ecological constraints?

Satisfying ecological constraints means concretely respecting the limits of the Earth.

1. Fight against inflation of non-production workforce

Satisfying the ecological constraint requires entering into a logic of degrowth, to reduce the constraint on raw materials, waste and other emissions which disrupt the climate.
The problem is that currently no one knows how to implement degrowth. Indeed, growth is necessary in capitalist systems, to compensate the inexorable inflation of non-production workforce, described by C. Northcote Parkinson, which turns out to concern both private companies and public services.

Non-production workers are people who do jobs whose impact on society is low or zero, or even harmful. For example, quality services, personnel management, marketers, financiers or lawyers, as opposed to nurses, teachers, garbage collectors.

2. Supervise decision-making processes

The ecological impact of production must come before other considerations such as cost or marketing.
Or tenter d'obtenir cela via des contraintes règlementaires, à l'intérieur d'une économie de marché, comme cela se fait aujourd'hui, est parfaitement illusoire, parce que beaucoup trop grossier. La loi ne peut pas prendre en compte finement chaque cas particulier. A l'inverse, la mécanique de prises de décisions décrite dans la seconde partie du livre Du capital à la raison le permet.

3. Ban unsolicited advertising

We cannot, on the one hand, artificially create needs in individuals that they did not have, and on the other, ask them to moderate themselves to protect the planet. Given the extent of the desired moderation, the happy medium on this scale is just a way of pretending to be ecology.
See chapter 14'Consumption and ecology' from the book From capital to reason.

4. Reduce the birth rate

This is an important measure, but requires significant work to control negative indirect effects. In particular, this assumes that the livelihood of elders is not ensured by children of a specific sex.

Summary: adopt an economic policy

Our modern states follow an economic policy... stupid, because it is mainly focused on more - growth - rather than on better. We therefore produce more and more things that are not really useful, to the detriment of poorly assured basic needs, and above all an irresponsible use of natural resources, unnecessary pollution, meaningless jobs, a pace and pressure at work without justification.
Then, to redeem a good conscience (resolve cognitive dissonance), we financially support at little cost some virtuous projects that we highlight in the media, without worrying about the fact that the economic model on which they are based does not is not generalizable. Being concrete and funded is not enough.

A serious economic policy begins by defining what are the needs of the members of the community that we wish to meet, and then strives to do so as best as possible, that is to say with the least possible impact on natural resources, the environment, as well as as an optimum organization of work aimed at limiting it to what is strictly necessary.

Go deeper

Start by understanding the major difficulty of the subject, explained in the question 'Why are small actions for the planet dangerous?'.

Understand what a serious economic policy is by referring to the question 'What is an economic policy?'

Read chapter 14'Consumption and ecology' from the book From capital to reason.

For a more detailed explanation of Parkinson's Law, and what we mean by non-production workforce, see the question 'What does Parkinson's law teach us?' on this site, or read chapter 2 'Widespread nepotism' from the book From capital to reason.

For an explanation of what we mean by framing the decision process, see the questions 'Why do humans reason massively wrong?' And 'How to make decisions consistent with the general interest?', puis lire la seconde partie du livre Du capital à la raison.