"Can We Make the Environment Profitable?"
It is profitable.
"The fact is that the reason that things are done in such a destructive way is down to profit."
Not really. It is the fact that profiteers have corrupted institutions to offshore costs while concentrating profits in their wallets. It is corruption that enables misdevelopment, not economics itself. Institutions are used as weapons by sociopaths incapable of healthy socialization against free people, and normal people are not capable of even imagining the broken minds that scheme to sacrifice far more valuable things to financial gain, and the power that provides to megalomaniacal sociopaths. Normal people don't worship themselves and therefore don't even grasp the need to protect themselves, society, and the world from such insanity.
As decentralization proceeds, centralization declines. Across all industry decentralization is the cutting edge of technological advance, and the more advanced technology is, the faster it develops and disseminates. Tech always increases the power of individuals versus the power of institutions, and also does so more the more advanced it is. The laws of physics are the source of technology, and corrupt institutions cannot ban, pass, or amend the laws of physics.
As corrupt institutional power declines, just and free society becomes more powerful every day. The only thing that can prevent the eventual nullification of institutional power is our extinction. If we but avoid war, all we have to do is continue to adopt personally necesssary means of production as they become nominally developed to meet our needs, until we can just ignore psychopaths until they go away.
The natural environment is the most profitable possession of natural persons. Legal persons, inhuman and inhumane, seek to profit by it's scarcity. As we end that inhumanity via decentralization, we begin to restore that most profitable possession of humanity: our natural world.
Hey, you appear to have lost your gremlin!
Much of what you say is a bit far our there for many. Still, I think it's worth planting the seeds for ideas which have people looking at doing things a different way.
The future is happening today. To see it coming all we have to do is look. Only those that look will see, and the rest will follow those that have seen the way when the time comes. While we are right to lament the terrible desecration of our blessed Earth today, I am confident we will create worlds of wonder beyond number across the universe, and then we will rejoice at the abundance and fecundity of that sacred life we have well served.
Profiteers concerned only with their own benefit have sought to indoctrinate us from birth to know only how to serve them. That we question what we are told demonstrates that we will learn the truth in time, and that technology is enabling individuals to create every good thing able to improve our quality of life proves that overlords are obsolete. In time vampires will no longer parasitize good people, and we will undertake to first heal our world, and then to bless with abundance and fecundity the life we depend on with our every endeavor.