I've said it before: We're screwed

I want to steer you toward an article from The Guardian called "On a Planet 4C Hotter, All We Can Prepare for Is Extinction". Here's part of what it says:

We need to get prepared for four degrees of global warming, Bob Watson told the Guardian last week. At first sight this looks like wise counsel from the climate science adviser to Defra. But the idea that we could adapt to a 4C rise is absurd and dangerous. Global warming on this scale would be a catastrophe that would mean, in the immortal words that Chief Seattle probably never spoke, “the end of living and the beginning of survival” for humankind. Or perhaps the beginning of our extinction.

Go read the rest of it, please.

Now read this from the comments section:

Stopping global warming goes directly against human nature. There are 6 billion people today and virtually all of them want more than they have. We do not have the capacity to stop ourselves. Even if some plague came along and wiped out 99% of us, it’d still probably be too late. It’s happening too fast and is going to hit humanity like a bullet.

It is simply beyond my comprehension that the very people who could turn this around (or who could have; it may be too late) also have children and grandchildren. And still they value short-lived profits over saving the planet. I simply don't get it except to hypothesize that humanity has a collective death wish.