SteveStrummerUK
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24292615
But will it make any difference now we know it's almost certainly our fault?
No. It will not make much difference.
The world population has been sustaining a massive plague for decades now. Unlike the bubonic plague, the only substantial transmission of HIV is via infected needle sharing (not drug addiction), or via sexual contact with an infected person. The epidemic has not been slowed by the obvious and simple expedient of using clean needles or avoiding dangerous sexual practices with persons of unknown HIV status. The infection rate is finally being brought down by the use of effective antiviral treatment. No such effective anti-warming treatment is on the horizon.
If the clear risk to an individual from HIV will not result in behavior changes that could save his life, the abstract and distant threat of the inundation of places where he does not live, or the loss of species that he does not eat or otherwise benefit from is unlikely to do so either. Add the pressure of a gigantic commercial and industrial system run by extremely wealthy politically influential people who as individuals stand to lose far more than the average individual if any change is made to that system, and the chances that human society will act to avert an environmental disaster that it causes are remote.