US Oil based Empire Destroys the World's Climate, not pretty.

http://www.alternet.org/world/chomsky-americas-obsession-destroys-earths-climate?akid=12208.294211.w_zzby&rd=1&src=newsletter1018198&t=5

Oil based economy has been chosen by those we elected.  The alternative of clean energy was ignored because of the payoffs by the Billionaire Koch Brothers and their wealthy buddies.