Knowingly causing our own destruction (#2139)

We humans know through science that our interactive activities with our environment and our climate specifically is causing an adverse effect on the planetary biological growth we can sustain here on Earth. We know this as a truth. There is no denial of this fact that can logically be offered. Yet we continue to deny to ourselves this basic truth. The reason? Profits made from using dirty energy are too enticing. Much like the mythical call of the Sirens, it cannot be ignored. So off we go as a species to damage what we call home. I suppose there are many who are currently denying the science that are contrarily gambling that some, get this, scientific breakthrough will be able to reverse our headlong fall into the abyss. Some scientific breakthrough, although we choose to ignore science that is telling us to stop our current crude industrialization, that will wipe away our harm just before the day of reckoning comes due. Surely it will be someone else who discovers this hoped for miracle as the rest of us are way to busy living off the success the commercialization trade off of our future is presently affording us. I for one am again quite disappointed in our species by the fact that a less intellectual and less knowledgeable soul like myself has to keep warning the many who don't give it much thought. When I am part of the clarion call it proves to me anyway that the rest of us are a dismal failure in the most basic of survival instincts. That being conscious of our own demise and not only doing nothing to stop it but actually making the onset of our demise happen sooner. I am getting closer to my last days in existence so therefore I am not the one who will be most hurt by our current insanity. However there are a couple generations after me that will be effected and for them not to be at the forefront of screaming form the rooftops for a stop toward a certain death spiral and new solution that is actually currently available is on them and being so they are doing little to help themselves.