Indeed, you said it all with this observation "Like a racehorse they gambled all their money on".
Its the same reason we can't quit oil or any form of energy extraction. Everyone is invested in it, as maybe they feel they need to, to get the energy they need for life in the form of money, but by doing so they perpetuate the system of energy scacification and energy slavery.
And yet it's all planetary destruction.
Many more great points you wrote, but this one is the dart in the middle of the bullseye to me.