Playing Chicken with the Apocalypse

In this section of the eBook, Sumner goes into detail about how humanity has slowly been poisoning Mother Earth since the industrial revolution. According to him, we are going to bring about both our downfall and hers by using up all of her resources, polluting the atmosphere, causing global warming, et cetera. But as he talks about all the things that we've done wrong for such a long time (and continue to do wrong), it makes you wonder what the point in warning us is. Hasn't this been going on for so long by now that it's too late? We have the technology and the means to make life so easy for ourselves (cars, airplanes, air conditioning, power plants, computers, factories). But we don't have the technology and the money to gain the benefits of these things without harming the earth. This problem would take massive worldwide change in order to be solved. The audience of this eBook can't really do anything to change the way things are.