Speak for yourself. I’m not “trying to chase that all mighty dollar$$$”, and planet Earth certainly does not come last for me. I would say the same for most of my friends and family, too. I’d also say you understand and care, even if you’re stuck in negative old thoughts about it.
As for “workers who work there supporting their families”, they need to be taken care of too, just not in a way that is harmful.
Many people don’t get that, but many people do. For people who do, the question is how to shift the world’s conversations out of the dead-end boxes they are in, and into something with room for a preferable future.
It doesn’t require changing everyone’s mind. It’s more about shifting ideas and getting the new ideas and perspectives where the decisions are made. And fortunately, you and I don’t need to do that ourselves, but we can help by speaking the truth and not being resigned and cynical and defeated about it. Even if you aren’t optimistic, surely it doesn’t help much to repeat the stuck in a rut truisms of thought ruts that lead to an awful future.
I agree that we “can’t be to[o] sure about the children being born today”, but we can still care about them, and least enough to be interested in the possibility of a survivable future based on acknowledging the situation and changing things for the better, rather than staying locked inside known sick ideas that lead to a doom.