The whole reason we care about the environment is so we can keep living in it. What should we do instead, leave the turtles to inherit the earth and yeet ourselves into the sun?
Exactly that. We destroy our tourist destinations, beaches, food sources, areas where to live, landscapes for desktop backgrounds, the air and the water. Lost in useless economic abstractions.
Sorry, I kind of misread the second sentence of the post above. I thought the whole point is that: why would you destroy your own habitat? That's just so incredibly unreasonable.