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This is exactly it. The wealthy and powerful of our world want to continue their reckless and rampant exploitation of the planet for profit; bullshit solutions like these are what they come up with because they want to keep doing what they're doing, earth be damned.

That's why the solution isn't these absolutely absurd "solutions", but rather in destroying the power of the profit motive, reorganizing our economic model based on rational resource allocation rather than chasing infinite growths and profits for the 1%.