We dump mass quantities of pollutants into the air, water, and soil, while also destroying forests left and right. There's no question that we have an effect on the environment and climate imo. I'll give you that it may be exaggerating an already existing cycle, but still, we're doing some pretty hefty damage to resources we depend on. To me it seems like common sense, and we should do better to approach the future with caution. We need cleaner energy. We need to continue the process of recycling. We need to be doing more planting to replace what we cut. And that's world wide, not just here in the US. These extreme weather patterns will probably just get worse, the more damage we do. And if, let's say, the climate change folks are wrong, at the very least it'll help maintain resources that we do depend on.
Though, I know I'm seen as a liberal loon here, so I probably should just shut up.