Are Psychoanalytic Paradigms for Us or for Use?

I was recently enthralled by a simple but meaningful phrase spoken by an ecological engineer on public radio referencing an approach to environmental conservation. The phrase was: sustainability by design. In the radio interview the pragmatic but difficult paradigm to implement was proposed: To ensure a future for the planet countries would have to find a new way of solving the problem of waste and overuse of natural or man-made resources. In this proposal a design or new construction would be established that would solve the problems of global warming, reliance on petroleum and so forth.