Looking over economic development on our globe since the end of the Second World War, a new social and historical phenomenon is observable without as yet a name. Let’s call it ecobloat. Economic production in the US during the war of military and civilian goods was gigantic. The US transitioned to mainly civilian production starting in 1945 at a time when the civilian production in Russia and Germany was stagnant or non-existing and all the other European countries had economies that were scaled-down. The US was suffering from ecobloat. Ecobloat creates an economic law that is now observable worldwide. Whenever a national economy expands much more rapidly than neighboring economies, some spillover from the richer economy to the poorer neighboring or nearby economies is inevitable. The richer economy rids itself of some of its bloat by exporting its corporations, capital and technologies to neighboring countries. No ecobloat economy can simply isolate itself from poorer neighbors and continue to bloat. The US postwar economy was the first to deal with ecobloat. It could not export most of its products because foreign states were too poor to buy them so it exported its corporations and its capital to foreign states along with its advanced technologies which made poorer states richer. Chinese ecobloat is now spilling over into South East Asian states just as US ecobloat spilled over long ago to economies like Japan and Italy and more recently to South American countries aiding them to become richer. But the law of ecobloat does not always operate peacefully. The European Union is a case of collective ecobloat that is not spilling over into African states and Moslem states and is causing unregulated immigration and terrorism. Germany recently tried to solve its ecobloat (it has already been been debloating in Poland) by voluntarily importing massive amounts of immigrants. This is at best a partial solution. The European Union can only solve its ecobloat problem by obeying the law of ecobloat. It must export its capital. corporations and technologies to poorer countries in Africa and the Near East or become economically obese. The US has never allowed us Americans to suffer the bad consequences of not treating ecobloat properly. It has kept us prosperous but lean by a long history of exporting our technologies, capital and corporations worldwide.
Daniel McNeill
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