Unfair

In John Broome's article "The Ethics of Climate Change" I read the line: "By emitting greenhouse gases, are the rich perpetrating an injustice on the world's poor?" This line really got to me. I completely agree with this statement because it really is the rich that are contributing to global warming. The poor do not have the money to use anything (cars, machines) that could contribute to global warming. And the rich really are committing an injustice because the lives of the children of the poor and their children's children will be different and there is nothing the poor can do about it. They can not stop the rich from emitting greenhouse gases and they can not do antyhing to help reverse global warming.
America's capitalist society is partly to blame not just for global warming but for the fact that we do not seem to care that we are also effecting the poorer nations of the world. Capitalism has taught people to worry only about themselves and the profit they are gaining. Ethics plays a limited roll in capitalism and it is unfortunate that these are the values that Americans are teaching their children. Even if people see the negatives of capitalism, these values come into play in all parts of life.