If we were more powerful than nature we'd be able to prevent climate change. We aren't hence the reason we're stuck with the mess.

But do you also say as much for smog? It's just weather? It's a very visible instance of us affecting, at least at a local level, the environment.

The precedent of stucking in mess is something that lacks debate with insight. Less emotion and politics, please. Climate is changing, sure. But faith in our ability to change it (same as that is our responsibility) is still faith. Collective guilt do harm more, history proofs that. And it happens over and over (how many people will suffer just because of "green politics?").

Volcanoes spewing smog here and there. It's nature.

It's damn weather! It's bad, it's sad and it's been happening badder and sadder at an exponentially increasing rate over the last 50 years or so, best explained by models in which there is a causal link to human activity.

Ah yes. There are alarmist articles and studies for decades that predicted our extinction because of climate change. But somehow we are still here.

I'm sorry, but I don't belive that individual human beings are cancer of our planet.

It is easy to spread fear and blame others for nature disasters. Then it is much easier to accept new orders to feel safe more. Or defence for a suffering of others. It is basic rule for implementing any totalitarian ideologies.