And all those countries who "got it right" and did not devote "all of (their) resources to fighting wars over oil, did what exactly CarolC?

Did they instead put their resources into "developing and perfecting technologies that would provide us with renewable, non-polluting sources of power"? - Hell as like they did

France opted a long time ago to go for the nuclear solution, Britain had the opportunity to do that a few years ahead of the French and should have done so.

The US during the last eight years has managed to do quite a lot, in terms of reducing greenhouse gas emmissions they've a better track record than most who signed up to pay lip service to Kyoto - and that was, according to CarolC, despite devoting all their resources to fighting wars which of course is absolute tosh - nothing but biased, emotive, baseless, rubbish.