There is a tension that it is going to happen anyways some in the show, or at least anyways unless those corporations and the CCP come to equal terms (likely at loss of standard of living that they are both burning through the world to maintain).

Its also a bit of the “effective altruism” mind virus where at the scale of forever it’s a wash to have most of the planet destroyed today so that they each can have a playground for the “cool” futures they imagine leading humanity down.

They are stupid, but it is also very based in real people.