"your pet issue doesn't matter because my pet issue exists"
That's not what this is. This is more "your civil war doesn't matter because we're all going die". It's not an "issue", "pet" or otherwise. The fact that you think of it that way is why it's happening.
We're all going to die, either in wars or starving to death. Within our lifetimes. Don't you get it?
But not the will. Because people are focused on building spaceplanes instead of focused on what matters.