Humanity being the first species to go extinct because it was more profitable than continued existence.
Not so much profit as a particular failure of accounting. Focus on privatization of profit with socialization of costs allows making staggering and possibly fatal costs someone else’s problem.
Remind me of the fantastic line:<p>"The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment"
Let's emulate world class leadership from the greatest country on earth, and immediately stop funding those alarmists doomsayers.<p>Anyway, I read on HN that AI was about to solve climate change any time now. I'm sure prompting LLMs the right way will harness the world knowledge to generatively hallucinate a way for trees to grow better.
See <a href="https://screenrant.com/far-side-gary-larson-dinosaur-extinction-smoking-kills/" rel="nofollow">https://screenrant.com/far-side-gary-larson-dinosaur-extinct...</a>