Enough guilt - more action

Most of us feel guilty, particularly those of us in the West, because of what we've done as humans to wreck the environment. There is no doubt human beings change the environment around them more than the environment changes them. It is the hallmark, I believe, of our species. That we choose to affect it in a negative way - and now on a global scale - is astonishing, particularly considering how few it actually benefits.
In what we euphemistically label, the 'Third World', at least half the world's population (some 3 to 4 billion people) lack adequate food and water. In the 'First World' cancer, heart disease and mental illness rates are soaring.
The Panama Papers pulled back the covers just a tiny bit to expose a corrupt and illegal rule of the rich who sit atop a rotten system we still call Capitalism. While we all participate to some extent or another in keeping the machine running, I think we must realize we are destroying what is ours for no reason other than to make the super rich richer, concentrating wealth to the point where they will 'own' virtually everything.
The world belongs to everybody. Destroying it for the benefit of a few individuals is insanity. With the knowledge humans have collectively acquired surely we can take care of everyone's basic needs. We owe it to our children, our children's children and ourselves to see this truth - and then do something about it - beyond feeling guilty.