while i agree to an extent with some of what you said, I will question your summation about climate change. There was a time before Al Gore and Bill Gates and before it became politically expedient to jump on the climate change bandwagon, a time where everyone in europe was on board and the US balked because climate change would hurt business. A time where scientists believed in climate change based on the science. Not because anyone pressured them to. The fact is scientists brought it to the attention of the general public so that politicians were forced to act, but being politicians they needed to find a way to make money out of it, to win votes and barter with business.
Scientists predicted thirty years ago what is happening today with pretty stunning accuracy, except no one would listen. Yeah so maybe there are different reasons than what they originally thought. But the truth is that polar ice caps are melting. The seas are rising, forest fires are increasing, species are going extinct. But heaven forbid we try to control any industry that pollutes and steals natural resources from the public domain for a pittance of the value.
Let's just put it all on the consumer for wanting things that we are brought up believing we need to have. Oh and let's not give the average guy enough education to understand this or time to research the facts between the false news because they are too busy working to think past paying the next bill. The nightmare misdirect isnt climate change. It's greedy politicians and business men who want to force people into believing that climate change is a big lie so that we will go on blindly following the bouncing ball like a bunch of eejits.
Yes we need to change our patterns and thought processes. Yes we need to put a real value on natural resources and reject government authority. But let big business off the hook because "it's all a hoax"? Absolutely not. If I need to take responsibility, so do they. They've gotten a free lunch for way too long.