Why humanity won't win a fight against climate change?

James Lovelock, a real legend when it comes to environmentalism, and the founder of the idea that our planet is a giant, self-regulating organism – the so-called Gaia theory, has recently given very simple explanation why humans won't stop climate change, namely because humans are too stupid.

Lovelock said that he doesn't believe how humans have yet to evolve to the point where we're clever enough to handle a complex a situation as climate change, and that only a catastrophic event of great magnitude (for instance collapse of a giant glacier in Antarctica, such as the Pine Island glacier, which would immediately push up sea level) would be able to persuade humanity to take the threat of climate change seriously enough.

It is become rather clear that another Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report won't be enough to force the world to an immediate action, especially not after the panel was heavily criticized over a mistaken claim that all Himalayan glaciers are likely to melt by 2030.

The number of climate change skeptics seems to be growing lately, and I also believe that world will fail to react to climate change before some catastrophic event of gigantic proportions. The most worrying part in this whole story is that once climate change starts showing its scary face we'll have very limited options to do something about it.

The main problem with the adequate response to climate change is that there are so many different interests involved, especially on global level, and lets face it humanity doesn't exactly have positive experiences about solving matters on global level. If that was the case then hunger and wars would be long forgotten by now.

Humans are indeed stupid, stupid in their selfishness which blinds them to see things from global perspective. Global interests should be above the individual interests, that is common logic, but sadly when it comes to individual interests greed destroys any logic. The Copenhagen failure was the best example of our civilization's immaturity, and things still do not look as they could improve any time now.