and let grandpa pay for repairs himself
I must have not seen those threads. Or did see them and forgot. But there’s a very fundamental issue here. If the global economy is dependent on continuous GDP growth, then regardless of what we may or may not do about critical issues like climate change (and we’re not doing much) continuous growth necessarily implies continuous increase of resource consumption and continuous environmental devastation.
Where does it end? Corporations with short-term myopia don’t care. But ultimately this pattern of continual increased consumption, if continued without restraint, has to end with extinction. There is simply no other alternative. The flora and fauna that we depend on to sustain our life and environment will most likely come first, and then we will follow. This is ultimately the price of our current and unsustainable economic model of continuous growth.
Somali will serve the full sentence (only six months but still)