TV, Climate Change, and our Demise

Isn't our generation something? Many call it the 'TV Generation' and believe me it is getting worse. It really is interesting to observe how effective it really is on our lives. The source of conversation is revolved around the latest quote from the next nonsense yet entertaining movie. Fashion trends and ways of acting have really become quite crazy as well.
I want to become a doctor just like house, or grey's anatomy, or have awesome co-workers as in Scrubs. I want to design fashion because I love project runway, I want to be rail thin because those girls from America's Next Top Model are hot. I want a Luis Vuitton bag because the girl from the O.C. loves hers. I want to play guitar like that dude from that band I saw on MTV.
It makes people self-conscious of themselves, Why don't I have all those things I see others have, why don't I have tight knit friends like Friends. I feel that we as a society are losing touch of reality. There is a fine line between Us and TV but it gives us the illusion that it is easy to cross. It makes people look away from what is in front of our eyes; pollution, climate change, oil depletion.
We take so much for granted in this world as we sit and absorb all our knowledge from a aesthetic source. Look at our environment, it is dissolving right in front of our eyes and yet nothing, to a large extent, is helping fix what he have destroyed. It is alarming how bad we are off, water has become a limited resource, our carbon footprint is continually increasing, and as one of the main countries that produce so much we haven't signed the Kyoto Protocol to limit our output in to the atmosphere.
Instead of buying the latest SUV since that commercial was so exciting and would look great driving that car, why do we not seek the right choice, the more practical choice? The general opinion is that hey its not happening in our lifetime to the huge extent it will be in the future so who cares I like to live comfortable and do not want to sacrifice anything. Was the drying of the Amazon just a coincidence? No, it was sign. Was the heat wave in Europe just a spontaneous happening in our world. No it was a sign. Think about all the people these 'little' things effect, the Amazon drying up had major detrimental effects on the local villagers who do not even pollute our earth, how ironic is that.
The greatest annoyance to people these days are high gas prices but o no wait they are going down, does this mean that we are fine again? No, gas is not a unlimited resource it will run out and it will run out sooner then we would like to think. It would have been better for us to have just leave fossil fuels alone, it was there for a reason, and I don't think that reason was to burn it back in to the atmosphere. Burning fossil fuels was our greatest demise in the first place , we have now become so dependent on it that to think that we could ever run out is preposterous but it will happen.
I guess it just doesn't make sense to me, the amount of time we put in to trends, television, just surviving our comfortable lifestyles that we can't do our part. People made this mess so why can‘t we do our part, we are so readily to destroy our environment to live happily in our material world but what happens when the effects of these actions catch up to us, what then? In class we all talked about the changes in the climate we have noticed, these slight changes are just the start soon the world we live in now will not be the world we bring our children in.
Continuing in this path, I believe that at some point there will be a point of no return, just like the dinosaurs , whom roamed the earth longer then humans, we will become extinct we are just mammals, extremely destructive mammals.