This article illustrates the sad fact how egotistical the average American has become today. How Americans have gone from valuing their descendents and ancestors, to not giving a hoot about either their descendents or ancestors. This absolutely selfish and hedonistic attitude dishonors our ancestors and damns our descendent's to a hard life. What have we become when we have become so self centered, the self is the only thing we consider, with few exceptions such as our parents and children. When our children's children are suffering I can imagine our children telling their children and rightly so Grandpa or Grandma were too selfish to stop this global climate change and now were suffering because of it. The future generations will look at our generation with a shame and disgust about how complacent and selfish we were; they will look at us how we looked upon former generations with their inhumane practices such as slavery and harsh criminal penalties such as hanging . Oh how I pray for the future citizens of this world because few others seem to be!