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If you don't want to start a flame war then don't start a flamewar. This is not relevant to the article


It was a good illustration of

- "Apophasis... is a rhetorical device wherein the speaker or writer brings up a subject by either denying it, or denying that it should be brought up. Accordingly, it can be seen as a rhetorical relative of irony."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apophasis


My point is that if people are fighting something that is so inconsequential to their own personal lives, imagine how hard they are going to fight the things that do affect them.on a daily basis. The very same things that need to be done to tackle climate change.




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