Trade and commerce are all about rationalizing chains, webs, and products. First, products are only those that have gone through a rational public scoping, needs assessment, and rationalization. I call them ecological niche products. Products with a context that is planned well are the only products we ought to be producing in this world. The ecogeorelative rationality concept attempts to have fair and rational trade regarding all the in-context indicators relatively considered based on priority through relative weights. If we can produce spinach locally with minimal detrimental impacts, including minimal pollution, then it does not make sense to grow spinach with higher harmful impacts 4000 miles away. The former market-based ultra-competitive capitalist system did not consider the broader context and rationality regarding efficiency, minimizing natural resource consumption, and minimizing pollution. However, It could all change if we have fusion energy or minimal detrimental impacting transportation. If such a concept existed, we could justify broadening the geographic area and explain longer-distance commerce. The environmental impact assessment process includes human impact as well. We should have no coast-to-coast trucking as it should be replaced by energy-producing trains.

Any assessment process should consider all the variables in the entire chain, from the product’s conception to its actual use or consumption. This evaluative method attempts to promote the infusion of rationality by having an environment (including humans, etc.) that functions sustainably and strives while promoting positive energy for the people. Suppose we do not assess in this manner. In that case, we will not consider the entirety of the webs and chains, leading to a non-sustainable striving assessment as it will only assess those considerations the out-of-context business concerns want us to set. This would lead to out-of-context degradation if we had impact units and energy production units as a ratio, similar to the often insufficient and archaic cost and benefits concept. Assessing these ratios in an ecogeorelative rational way is the key. These additive and multiplicative cumulative impact costs are crucial to systematically understanding this concept. The more we can plan the minimization of detrimental impacts and, at the same time, prepare the potential benefits in terms of value, energy, and benefits creation along the path, the more we can understand what we do instead of continuing to know, not what we do. However, simpler and more efficient closer-to-nature functioning is often a better alternative when determining how to function, as it usually requires minimal structure.

When we need more complexity because of a critical need or want, we can assess everything to produce only positive energy and strive to minimize detrimental impacts of all types that decrease our sustainable striving potential. Suppose we continually strive to create more positive energy and sustainable investing along these chains and webs. In that case, we can tread softly or with minimal detrimental impact when traveling on longer, complex paths. It is sort of like striving to take care of everyone and everything in the environment before extreme anthropocentric degrading functioning and processes in the absence of these considerations. It is the only way to assess apples to apples. Any other way appears irrational and out of context with our more stable natural environment and integrated ecogeorelative ecogeosystemic functioning. If we start simply by planning and functioning closer to nature in as many needed ways as possible, striving to minimize our footprint, then when we need to venture further and deeper into the wilderness to satisfy our needs. We can invest the energy to reduce impacts and create multiplier value, energy, and benefits. We can do so by striving to minimize degradation to anything. We will have planned out potential interventions, offsets, and tradeoffs as we continually strive to minimize detrimental impacts. Over time, we will constantly advance and improve in environmental technology and engineering with nature in mind. This leads to continually striving to improve our beneficial impact on our environment, people, and world.