Turns out, all of the worst destroyers of our environment and humans all knew exactly what they were doing and went ahead anyway. Exxon had internal documents leaked, 3M, shell, gas industry giants, and then there are probably dozens more whose old internal documents haven’t been leaked.
0 consequences at all.
There were no regulations on any of this, this was “the free market.” Companies will wilfully destroy the environment, technology to fix their failings, and literally humans themselves for more quarterly profit.