I mean this isn't an either/or we live in a world where we can do both, we just need the will as a population to actually invest in our environment the same way

I mean this isn't an either/or we live in a world where we can do both, we just need the will as a population to actually invest in our environment the same way we are willing to invest in stocks. I think the hardest part of environmentalism is showing investors you can make a quick buck off it. If you showed wall street environmentalism = a 8% growth investment they'd buy 5 world GDPs in the investment. But jokes aside the reason I think you'd be more likely to see desalination than forest planting is because you can meter the water line, just planting trees while potentially being the more efficient and logical decision lacks accountability. It makes it impossible to pass costs around to the people actually using all of the resources and causes trouble politically, which is the largest problem when it comes to solve real world problems