Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.
We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
A truly common culture is not one in which we all think alike, or in which we all believe that fairness is next to godliness, but one in which everyone is allowed to be in on the project of cooperatively shaping a common way of life.