Letters to the Editor
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These guys shouldn't have been let graduate kindergarten.
Something most of us learn as an ethic in kindergarten is leave things the way they were when you found them. Don't leave your toys scattered all over the floor. Flush the toilet after you use it. Put the milk back in the fridge. Don't throw the candy bar wrapper out the car window. This is necessary for the function of your own personal "society". The more ethically advanced even learned to occasionally pick up after the few who don't pick up after themselves.
But it holds for society on the large scale as well. Put the highly toxic uranium mine tailings back in the ground where you found them, if you don't mind. Don't change the chemical composition of the oceans, please. You may not be able practically to prevent the use of your fossil fuel in diffuse locations from altering the chemical composition of the atmosphere, but it would be good if you could contribute your share of what it costs to restore it, thanks.
But it's a lot more profitable to just leave the crap lying around as Somebody Else's Problem. Another example of what is humorously called 'Free Market Capitalism'; it's capitalism when it's profitable, but when it's costly it's socialism. I should be able to keep whatever I make, but I don't see why I should have to pay for my debts. Then follows a lot of pompous pontification about the "tragedy of the commons" and why therefore privatization of everything is the only way to go. The only way to save the climate will be presumably to privatize it.