The Marxists, who believed that all value is determined by labor, got a bit closer to describing what happens in the industrial states. But their economics also failed because equal labor does not produce equal outcomes. The person who bolts on the wheel of a Mercedes or a Yugo works equally hard. And, it should not be forgotten, Marxism also produced the ugly combination of economic failure and environmental destruction. The strategies for economic prosperity and environmental renewal can ultimately be fused around the complex subject of design.
Some environmental problems have no other solution BUT environmental redesign.
Global warming is the perfect example because it is so easy to define design targets. Experimental or foreign technologies were eliminated as excessively costly or unreliable. This ruled out photo-voltaic cells, among other things. But it was the interior layout that was most clever. This house lacks none of the comforts associated with middle-class housing, yet by simply renaming rooms, and functionally redesigning living spaces, it lives like a big house yet has the cooling needs of a small one.