It shouldn't take lawsuits to prevent actions that have unknown affects on the world but that's what the powerful have argued for. "Prove what I'm doing is harmful enough to justify stopping me from doing it." Its exactly the mentality of the right wing, of MAGA, of Trump, of CEOs and the entire business community. We have to prove harm before we can stop them from acting. And then they just undermine the entire process of determining that.

This is a much broader question about the tendency of the wealthy and powerful to act without any regard or responsibility to the communities and world they affect. They control vast systems of resource management and want to be beholden only to their own interests and only in the way they perceive them. They want to be tyrants, kings and emperors with absolute authority to decide what they do and what their systems do. Its absolute, pure narcissism, the ego and interest of the ones on top becomes the priority of the entire system they control.

Its insane to leave the direction of humanity solely to the egos of the wealthy and powerful. But that's exactly what they argue we should do.