@Grace wrote:
The main if not only motivation of for profit corporations to to make money for their shareholders. We ought to be able to invent whatever technology is necessary to maintain all our too big to fail corporations in the style to which they are accustomed without going to war against other nations to grab resources they have that we covet. It is mostly a matter of finding either renewable or recyclable replacements for those natural resources that our too big to fail corporations in extractive industries covet. We especially need to replace fossil fuel with renewable energy even before we run out of fossil fuel to avoid making such a mess of Earth's climate that we decimate (worse reduce Earth's carrying capacity for humans by half) agriculture thus destroying civilization. We need to make replacing fossil fuel with renewable energy at least as profitable for our too big to fail fossil fuel firms as the profits they are used to making over the past five years or so. Too big to fail corporations' major shareholders and executives in all industries are our ruling class, and must continue to be supported in the style to which they are accustomed--or else they turn on the bottom 80% of the socioeconomic heap and destroy them.