all things are trivial compared to climate change...

[Binkie The Clown]

8. I agree. People sometimes get annoyed with me when...

... I see a pointless debate over some trivial issue and point out to them that their debate is meaningless since global warming is going to kill us all if we don't take drastic action right now. That's such a buzz kill! They'd rather turn a blind eye to impending doom so they can concentrate on who is doing what to whom on some absurd reality TV show.

Or closer to home, people who are so focused on one issue (e.g. animal rights, access to abortion, economic policy, ending the war, globalization, health insurance, etc. etc.) to realize that even though those issues are important, they won't matter once the planet is dead. So if people really want to care passionately about only one single issue, it damn well better be the right single issue, and there is only one right single issue, and that is climate change.

Your pet cause won't even exist on a dead planet.