Environmentalism, or Boy I'm glad I'll be dead before this becomes a Huger Problem

If you want to know which environmental problems America will lead on and which it will screw over the world on, I think it helps to ask whether rich people are seriously affected by the problem in question. Rich white people get skin cancer, so we took the lead on forging the Montreal Protocol to protect the ozone layer. More rich white people benefit from fossil fuels economy than will be harmed by global warming (they think) so we are screwing over the world on global warming.