Environmentalism: 24/7 or 24 seconds?

I'm sick of environmentalism taking over what seems to be all our ethical concerns. Sure we need to burn less fossil fuels, have better designed houses for heating and cooling etc, etc. But it seems that these concerns have hijacked the entire of the ethical concerns of our nation. What about poverty, hunger, HIV/AIDS. Instead of letting environmental concerns fill our minds 24/7 they need to shift to 24 seconds a day.