I don’t worry too much about our responsibility to our environment; I leave that for after we have any sort of semi-coherent approach to our responsibility to o

I don’t worry too much about our responsibility to our environment; I leave that for after we have any sort of semi-coherent approach to our responsibility to ourselves. The human species will be destroyed by its own inability to control its impulses long before it does damage to “the earth”. In that way, the context you mention is almost irrelevant, except as a recognition that life isn’t fair—we didn’t ask to be here, we didn’t plan for our level of foresight, and we couldn’t have known that building our economies around certain resources would lead to global catastrophe. But, as you mentioned, these are the cards we have to play. We have to do the best we can with that. :-/