Of course I didn't just mean the United States, I meant the whole of the western world. This culture. This culture that has its foundations intriniscally, directly rooted in the exploitation of the natural world. Sure other culture's have rudimentary economies based on a simpler use of available resources. We should take stock of these, these are economies that make sense. Worldwide trade, industrial pollution, industrial sized resource extraction simply doesn't make sense. No population that directly supports (or imposes) the destruction of its own landbase is to be considered sane in my books, let alone succesful. Our modern day "economy" is so out of quilter with what is the only primary in this world, nature. They are inherently linked, but only if this culture continues to exist, which I hope it does not. And it will not. There is nothing remotely sustainable about it, hence its inevitable fall. But in the mean time, I think we should have much less focus on made up things like money (yes money is made up), stock markets, international markets in general and have more of a focus on reducing the catastrophic effects the crash will have on worldwide populations and nature.
And I'm not 15, I'm 26. I have studied these subjects, economics included, for over 10 years. From everything I've thought about, nature needs to come first, it's logical, common, sane sense.