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This reminds me of something that's often missed. If you think of the destruction and resource accumulation in terms of energy transfer, we don't accumulate the equivalent of what we destroy. Instead we let a star's energy do the destruction while we accumulate a tiny fraction alongside that.
Differently put, it's like profiting off the energy in the act of changing the temperature of the room's thermostat, not from the energy the heating system will dump in the room as a result of this change.
I think this is one reason why the profits made off climate destruction cannot cover the repair cost.