I am very very skeptical - particularly since you make no attempt to justify your position.

Western lifestyles are wildly wasteful. If all humans lived like Americans do, we'd need five planet Earths to provide all the resources. And now we've pushed so much carbon dioxide into our environment that disaster is certain, and we continue to push more CO2 out every day.

It could be that you're a vegan non-driver who has no kids, never flies, and doesn't buy huge quantity of plastic crap.

More likely, what your claim means is that you have made not the slightest attempt to figure out how your wasteful lifestyle affects the rest of the world.

We've know about the greenhouse effect for over 150 years. Over thirty years ago, the UN realized that our rising temperatures were a threat to all our futures and started the IPCC reports, based on hard, peer-reviewed science.

And for over thirty years, each report begs the world to try to cut down our output of greenhouse gas, and we don't.

So this is what I meant by "we" - the insanely extravagant lifestyles of affluent westerners, particularly Americans, have destabilized our climate and our ecosystem, and we aren't cutting back - quite the reverse.