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Good point, has_te. I'd like to believe that the way out of this trap is through good worldwide public education. Unfortunately slashing and ruining education seems to be pretty much the norm here in the USA.
I sometimes wonder if that was intentional - if the government has deliberately destroyed education (particularly for the poor and middle class, thanks to our ridiculous system of funding) because they know that an uneducated population is much easier to control.
But that would be too cynical, wouldn't it?
As far as holding Exxon-Mobile and the other petroleum giants accountable, why stop there? Shouldn't the politicians who sold us out ALSO be held accountable? I see no reason why they and their descendents should be allowed to keep their ill-gotten gains. The same goes for the personal fortunes of the corporate executives who pushed these destructive policies, the lawyers, scientists, and other stooges who enabled them...it's a long list.
The problem is that many of these people will probably die of natural causes before environmental collapse becomes so obvious that the public erupts in anger, and you can't collect damages from a corpse - nor can you punish it.
Sorry, I have no answers.
