> Can you give an example of where someone has prioritised their own profit over their own survival?
Clearly they weren't saying, given the mugger's choice between "your money or your life!", capitalism would have you choose your money. This is about causing environmental destruction for the sake of profit, something that businesses have done and continue to do, endangering our long-term survival as a species. Saying that you don't know what the original poster meant is baffling.
I could, as you seem to have done, totally reworded the original quote to mean something that makes sense to me, but I was curious to hear if the author had anything in his/her mind. I'm pretty surprised at the responses.
Here was the original quote, specifically not talking about the environmnet, but rather as a principle to apply to the environment, for reference:
> If profit and self-preservation are at odds, profit wins.
> Can you give an example of where someone has prioritised their own profit over their own survival?
Clearly they weren't saying, given the mugger's choice between "your money or your life!", capitalism would have you choose your money. This is about causing environmental destruction for the sake of profit, something that businesses have done and continue to do, endangering our long-term survival as a species. Saying that you don't know what the original poster meant is baffling.