>Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. We're destroying the planet, but at least we have cheap consumer g

>Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. We're destroying the planet, but at least we have cheap consumer goods. Future generations (if there are any) will look very poorly upon us. We're fine with any level of environmental destruction because we believe the future always gets better. We implicitly believe that some future genius will invent a solution to climate change that doesn't involve any sacrifice from us. We can't keep assuming a magic solution is going to drop in our lap, we need to start fixing the biosphere now.