Even believing they're in it for greed does allow a peaceful median. If the decisions at hand aren't too important to the people they are decided for, if the assumption exists that the profit motive *can be manipulated*. And that there is time.

The problem is when each side has found a way of pointing at every other side and saying "see? they're destroying us!" and making it believeable. The problem, then, is: What if some of them are right. When the question is where to go, not how to go there, and the answers differ so deeply that 4 years is a lifetime rather than a drop in the bucket...