This just made me think of an interesting point. We’re basically running humanity as a whole like a startup. We’re consuming resources like crazy, just running full speed ahead to a future where the loans taken in the present will be offset by some kind of technological revolution - fusion power, weather control, large scale desalination, drone reforestation and ocean cleanup, underground builds, clean energy and space elevators.

People do actually like nature. When technology advances far enough, humans will use it to restore nature again, not necessarily because we feel obligated to, but because it sells houses.