> There's potential for a huge gain in efficiency here ... Of course the market is exited at the long term prospects of that.

IMHO this supports the OPs point, which is that the stock market in its current incarnation does not care about the lives of human beings.

Which is unacceptable. We collectively have enough creativity and intelligence figure out how to have a stock which can not only reflect corporate profit but also human well-being.

I think it begins by acknowledging market externalities - pollution being one of them - which allow for activities which are profitable within the shared fiction of the market, but which are, in our broader shared reality, ultimately destructive.

The Happinese/Well-being GDP also seems like an interesting idea.