onus probandi incumbit ei qui dicit, non ei qui negat. But anyway. Utility isn't measured in amount of land used or CO2 emitted or minerals extracted. This is

onus probandi incumbit ei qui dicit, non ei qui negat. But anyway. Utility isn't measured in amount of land used or CO2 emitted or minerals extracted. This is not a Starcraft game. Using land better increases the sum. Making energy production more efficient increases the sum. Zero-sum means that any of my gains is someone else's loss, which is not how any human society has ever worked. A zero-sum world implies that any form of human cooperation that isn't literally war is impossible, which doesn't empirically seem to be the case.