Are they producing for ME? Not either in motive or in terms of my needs. They are doing it to get the maximum possible amount of money they possibly can, and since in US culture there can be no greater good than such continual piling up of personal wealth, they will produce and produce and produce more, no matter whether we need or want the stuff and no matter the consequences. And that makes them dangerous to the world, which is finite in what it can supply for all this production.

As for as my, and your, needs and wants go, American industry has been spending a fortune on ever-more-intrusive and manipulative advertising to induce us to want more and more stuff since the 1920s. The vast debt of Americans suggests that our makers and sellers of things have succeeded in making us a people that believes that every problem can be met with a product. And that makes us American consumers likewise dangerous to the world.

Both groups of Americans are thus at the nexus of the global warming problem. Scientists tells us this convincingly, and tell us to address the problem by generating less greenhouse gases. There is strong consensus among them on both points. If we in the US realize that, and reach a tipping point on this subject as the American public is wont to do, then we can lessen the harm we do.

Do not attempt to shift the danger to the next group of folks coming up who will want lots of money and stuff too. They haven't actually done much harm yet. The developed world has, and arguably has the technical means to lessen the harm it continues to do. Here in the US is where the news of the danger and the needed response needs to be gotten out convincingly and fast.