Markets are lethal, if only because of ignoring externalities, the impacts of their transactions on the environment.
Resource extraction impacts a global environment that is increasingly at severe risk.
Destruction of the environment is not only rational; it's exactly what you're taught to do in college.
Students typically are at a period of their lives when they're more free than at any other time. They're out of parental control. They're not yet burdened by the needs of trying to put food on the table in a pretty repressive environment, often, and they're free to explore, to create, to invent, to act, and to organize. Over and over through the years, student activism has been extremely significant in initiating and galvanizing major changes. I don't see any reason for that to change.
When geologists announced the beginning of a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, humans destroying the environment, one of the main things they pointed to is the use of plastics in the earth.
