Scientists: we can't keep living this way, it is unsustainable, the earth will live on, but we will perish unless we do something.
Capitalism: ok, now how do we maximize the profit in trying to save ourselves?
@gettingcomputey This quote is one of my favorites:
“The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space - each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.”
― Randall Munroe
