Having company doesn't mean that preference isn't selfish and short-sighted though.

Here are some of the planetary costs of the industrial revolution:

> The contemporary rate of extinction of species is estimated at 100 to 1,000 times higher than the background extinction rate

> 7% of all species on Earth may have been lost already

> only around 3% of the planet's terrestrial surface is ecologically and faunally intact

> roughly one million species face extinction within decades as the result of human actions

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction

If you believe Sky Daddy only cares about humans, or that we out-value all other life on the planet because we invented rocketry and antibiotics, then I guess this is all fine. But I don't, and I'm not alone either.

Just as we can have capitalism without poverty, we can have industry without apocalypse. It'll upset some extraordinarily wealthy fossil fuel people, but they're the ones who put us in this mess.