> We can’t preserve everything anyway...

Sure, so we might as well just go scorched earth, I guess. Nothing lasts forever, better destroy the environment then. Hey, clean water? Nope, just a fantasy. Clean air? Impossible. Living in balance with the other species that share this planet? Untenable, so we’d better just kill them all and get it over with in the name of profits.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."