25 good reasons to care about climate change

Climate change is a tough cause to rally ‘round—even those who understand that it’s happening and that it’s human-caused get distracted by things like eating, working, having sex, watching TV, or watching people on TV have sex.

Here is a Grist list of good reasons to care about this global crisis. Got reasons of your own? Let me know in the comments section below.

1. Because supermodels are stripping for the cause.
2. Because you don’t want your insurance premiums to go up.
3. Because you like to ski.
4. Because you’re a raging hypochondriac.
5. Because it’s a good excuse to learn weird things.
6. Because you hate oil.
7. Because you love oil.
8. Because you eat rice.
9. Because Stephen Colbert does.
10. Because the Christian Coalition does.
11. Because it will create jobs.
12. Because you live near water.
13. Because Kardashians interest you more than Katrinas.
14. Because you like breathing.
15. Because colorful coral jewelry completes most of your outfits.
16. Because you won’t be able to hold up your end of a conversation with Obama, Lucy Lawless, Glenn Beck, Evander Holyfield, or the Pope if you don’t.
17. Because colorful fall leaves are so pretty.
18. Because you don’t want to serve embarrassing champagne.
19. Because you like lights to come on when you flip a switch.
20. Because: “insect feeding frenzy.”
21. Because you support the recycled-soda-bottle fleece industry.
22. Because you think it’s depressing when old people die alone in hot apartments.
23. Because you think it’s depressing when little kids die.
24. Because everyone at Grist cares.
25. Because if we stop climate change, we can stop earnest lists like this.

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