Green or Greed: No Prosperity Without Respect for Nature

For years, we have told ourselves a convenient story: maximize short-term profit and comfort while pushing the real costs into the future. This apparent cynicism took hold because it was politically convenient. It seemed easier to defer the consequences of short-sighted choices— strategic dependencies, industrial fragility, and the erosion of natural capital— until geopolitical shocks and accelerating biodiversity loss made the bill unavoidable. At this point, the environment ceases to be a...