That's very true. It may very well have a net positive economical effect.<p>But the problem with that kind of reasoning is that if it is going to have a net positive economic effect that we can rape &#38; plunder mother nature to our hearts content and that simply isn't true.<p>Economic advantages are not all there is to look after, long term effects are important, and the absolute effect on economies is also important. In other words if our economy goes up because of doing something and some poor country loses all they've got then you could argue the net effect is positive because they didn't have much to begin with.<p>But that's definitely not how the world should work.<p>So we need to look past purely economic motives and at humanity (and to some extent the biosphere) as a whole.<p>Beancounters are bad stewards of ecologies.