@Brent, thats your incorrect opinion that Im burying my head in the sand and ignoring it. What exactly do you think the world can do with enough resources used to solve this? How much is enough? Got an estimate?
Why dont you start making a difference? Why are you buying food from retail markets instead of growing all that you eat? That food is transported using diesel/gasoline. So many resources are used up to grow that food, process it and get it to your table. The same with meat and dairy. Why do you drive vehicles? Dont you realize how much they pollute the planet? Are you perhaps greedy like the others you accuse? No, its a matter of neccessity and convienence. You act like everyone is polluting the planet on purpose because they want to just be evil. You live the same way as they do.
I think you would understand if you research how much of what you call pollution is released during a volcanic eruption in a short period of time in a reletive small area and see how long it takes the eviroment to recover. Compare that to any man made pollution of the same significance. Look at chernobyl and fukushima, cant get much worse than that. All those enviromental disasters have no effect on global climate change or factor into the earth having a global ice age or heat wave. Pollution is a localized affect not a global one. Global climate change has to do with orbital rotationtion of our solor system, cosmic ray fluxuations and solor radiation cycles from our sun.
My advise is to be as enviramentaly conservative as possable while still maintaining your quality of life, because what you suggest we as a human race is doing or not doing to our planet has no significance on the global enviroment or climate change of a exstinctional event. We as a species can and will adapt to most anything short of that.