Just 90 companies caused two-thirds of man-made global warming emissions

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3. Half the estimated emissions were produced in the past 25 years, ...

Half of the estimated emissions were produced just in the past 25 years – well past the date when governments and corporations became aware that rising greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of coal and oil were causing dangerous climate change.

This is why I have trouble with accepting our doom can be explained in our DNA or the maximum power principle. Governments and corporations have known the risk and placed every possible hurdle in front of climate negotiations from the first meeting in the late eighties. On the flip side, the desire of the willing emotional consumer has been exploited not just in culture and economy, but the politics as well. We had a choice to curtail the cause of our present distress, and find mitigation solutions. Instead we collectively chose our emotional comfort over unborn humanity's, future.

Even in the present, we reaffirm our devotion to consumption with the newest toy, car, fad, ... fill in the blank. Nary a thought of change if it effects our present comfort or desire.