"Nature got a helping hand from the addiction of the wealthy countries of the North to fossil fuels."

Exactly!  The fossil fuel companies should pay a special carbon tax for all the damage they are doing to our planet and for all the misinformation they spread about what they are doing.  Like the cigarette companies who knew full well their product caused cancer but denied it so they could sell their product, these fossil fuel companies are criminally culpable.  Their bought and paid henchmen in Congress, the White House and other levels of government need to be voted out.