the biggest polluters and wasters free to continue on

I think that businesses essentially buy elected officials by funding their campaigns when they run for office and in turn governments cater to businesses. Plus companies threatening to leave a country or region and all of that jazz.

It does sort of make one feel doomed in a way. Especially because I like to think of the physics notion - that energy cannot be created nor destroyed, only transfered. Makes me think that we all just get recycled into new earthly forms over and over endlessly. Perhaps in a few decades you and I will be "out of the pan" only to end up "in the fire," so to speak. Who knows?