It's too late': David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost.

[jimmy the one]

42. Known this for years; Americans disproportionately to blame

I have said for over 5 years that climate warming is irreversible; only that it would be maybe 50 years before people really started suffering, mainly in southern and currently temperate zones, and by then I will be dead, as will most of you reading this today.
.. Americans comprise about 5% of the worlds population yet consume about 25% of the worlds energy on a daily to yearly basis, squandering and wasting it on a daily to yearly basis. Preaching 'we have to act now to slow down energy use' is meaningless to the predominance of Americans who merely shrug their shoulders and turn up the heat high in winter and the thermostat down low in summer with no concern whatsoever except for their own personal comfort. And who can tell them what to do?
.. every week in summer where I live I see people sitting in cars with engines running with A/C running 45 minutes outside in hot sun reading a book waiting for the laundromat dryer to dry their clothes expending 100 times more energy use than if they had simply laid all their clothes out in the sun and dried them in an hour. But no, theirs is the American way - squander, waste, ignore consequences, and become righteously indignant if anyone dares to fault them for their wastefulness.
With trump and right wing cretins in control of the government for the next 4 years it will only get worse and then they will blame democrats for suppressing oil drilling which could have kept homes warmer and cooler by their twisted logic.
The downward spiral into the black hole of climate change is upon us and cannot be undone except by rapid development of controlled nuclear fusion and that will never be possible in time.

I am not an ego, jimmy the one is a British naval term, on board hms ships of size.