Statistics from BREAK THROUGH

Here are some statistics from BREAK THROUGH that show how my question applies in the world, and why answers are needed.
"When pollsters asked voters to rank issues in terms of their importance, the environment almost always came in last. In the Nicholas Institutes's survey, pollsters asked, 'What is the most important issue to you personally?' The environment cam in dead last...In a June 2006 survey, researchers with the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press asked people what issues they considered very important. The environment cam in twelfth...and global warming sixteenth...out of sixteen named issues" (Nordhaus and Shellenberger 32).
Data like this makes me really frustrated. This is what makes me want to become an activist and inform people of what is happening in our environment. I think that people plainly have no reason to fight global warming. Activists need to compel those people. We survive on this earth. We depend on it, and there is no way that we could live without it. The world needs to understand this. We are moving toward a point in history where everyone person on this planet will be united by global warming.
People might wait to stop climate change because we need to end the conflict in Darfur, or end the Iraq war. But, the problems that we face in our world now will be so much worse and more devastating than in the history of humanity in a century. This is why we need to act NOW. Once governments become more active, the public will follow. Incentive.