"Maybe we will make a few km^2 a no human zone" and "let's torch the planet" are not comparable risks. Not remotely. > Nuclear plants take ages to build, and a

"Maybe we will make a few km^2 a no human zone" and "let's torch the planet" are not comparable risks. Not remotely. > Nuclear plants take ages to build, and are insanely expensive. So do subways, these days, for no good reason! Capitalism kinda sucks at things with upfront costs and little maintenance costs. Without operational costs in fuel, there can't be enough rent sneaking to make the investment self-funding, and without the ability to do things incrementally --- constant practice --- we can't lower costs the usual way. Fundamentally, Capitalism is bad at capital, and good at operational. Irony in the name. It's no secret that places like Korea are good at doing nuclear power and subways cheaply. It's the same skill. Unfortunately, to the extent it's exporters being good at it, they skill relates on our non-skill.