Your point is valid, but I think it doesn't give enough credit to technological innovation and market forces. We've figured out how to do pretty amazing and rid

Your point is valid, but I think it doesn't give enough credit to technological innovation and market forces. We've figured out how to do pretty amazing and ridiculous things with the right incentives in place in the past, and I'm not sure what about this problem would classify it as impossible. To phrase it more glibly: "Necessity is the mother of invention."