{"id":51,"date":"2024-08-14T13:20:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T11:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biosustainable.org\/?page_id=51"},"modified":"2026-06-14T20:20:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T18:20:42","slug":"biosustainables-aim-is-to-launch-a-development-of-the-economy-that-meanders-forever-in-between-the-green-borders-of-nature","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/biosustainable.org\/","title":{"rendered":"Biosustainable\u2019s aim is to launch a development of the economy that meanders forever in between the green borders of Nature."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Guiding Role of the Consumer<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Steering the Economy to Stay Within the Limits<\/em> <em>of Nature<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Opening<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We are living within an economic system that has grown beyond its natural balance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The effects are visible\u2014not in theory, but in daily life and in the increasing pressure on the natural world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What this site is about<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This site presents a practical way to restore that balance.<br>Not through ideology, but through a clear and workable mechanism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A guiding principle<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In maritime practice, a&nbsp;<em>pilot<\/em>\u2014in Dutch:&nbsp;<em>loods<\/em>\u2014is the person who guides a ship safely into harbour, navigating between limits that cannot be crossed and cannot be seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the same way, the consumer steers production:<br>through choices, demand, and restraint, the economy is guided to stay within the boundaries of what is sustainable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>What follows from this<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since the consumer effectively guides the development of the economy, that role should be recognised and established as an operational function within the system itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This site explores what that would mean in practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Where to continue<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You are invited to read the Manifesto for the full reasoning.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A concrete illustration you will find in &#8220;<em>The Mechanism:<\/em>\u00a0<em>Pay the Pilot\u2019s Wage.\u201d<\/em> under <em>Articles<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To see how the Ethical Market Economy could be introduced in practice, visit\u00a0&#8220;<em>China and the Ethical Market Economy<\/em>&#8221;\u00a0under\u00a0<em>Regions<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hoeilaart June 14, 2026 Willem Adrianus de Bruijn<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guiding Role of the Consumer Steering the Economy to Stay Within the Limits of Nature Opening We are living within an economic system that has grown beyond its natural balance. The effects are visible\u2014not in theory, but in daily life and in the increasing pressure on the natural world. What this site is about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-51","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosustainable.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosustainable.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosustainable.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosustainable.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biosustainable.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":57,"href":"https:\/\/biosustainable.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/biosustainable.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/51\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biosustainable.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}