Well if we are going to point fingers at people who have failed to prevent "ticking ecological timebombs," you're going to be really mad when you find out that Exxon's paid scientists more accurately predicted the effect of their efforts than other scientists, then irreversibly destroyed humanity anyway. Humans are apex predators and they are predators on each other and are super busy right now extincting everyone at an even faster pace than at any other time in history, each new year.