Reading book like Cradle to Cradle one could wonder what kind of view of nature many “environmentalists” have. You can easily find arguments like “Nature does not produce waste” and “Nature has no design problem”. It is if nature would have a plan and a strategy for evolution, which is off course not true. That is if you don´t belong to some religious movement. One of the big waste deposits from nature, fossil fuels, is at the moment giving us a headache.
Think about the concepts “Design for Environment” and “Green product design”.
Is that how nature works? No nature has no plan for design but just an indiscriminate selection
One could say that this is how the market economy works. Just design and produce and let the market find out what can survive. The problem is that there is no effective market economy but a jungle of subsidiaries, legislation etc. Isn´t it just our ignorance and deficient planning for the future that creates lock-in effects?
Beware us of a nature that would give subsidiaries to some of its inventions.
