What is wrong with people?

I have now finished Lomborg's book, and am impressed enough that I decided to get his first book, but from a brief look at it in the book shop it is a much more comprehensive coverage of the facts he presents, and hence, I need to leave it for a while.
But I have also briefly just recently read some criticisms of these books and it appears people either just don't get it, or a criticising for the sake of criticising. Perhaps it is not clear in the book, perhaps I have misunderstood his message, but in my opinion this is what I got out of Lomborg's book: it is very simple, the world has a lot of problems, we have limited resources to solve them, let's sit down and make a list of priorities and get on with it. Climate change is a problem, but only one of many, and his only argument against it is that if people are preferring to address climate change on the basis of avoiding increased flooding, hurricane effects, people dying from starvation/malaria... then it is not the most cost-effective way of going about it.
Why are people even refuting his arguments? It would be much more productive to address and argue flaws in his logic, but of course that would be more difficult, and perhaps even impossible.

Wow, and you know... ultimately we have to face reality and understand that there are many reputable scientists who are opposed to this idea that we have human caused/induced climate change, and that we have not knocked nature out of equilibrium. But I doubt you will find scientist or layman, who will deny that we have extreme poverty in the world, famines, genocide! And that it is not a problem worth solving.

But yes, I think Lomborg is right, caring for nature appeals to our righteousness, morals which we have bought having the luxury to exist in a developed world. It is elegant and chi chi to buy 'green' sparkling bottled water, and 'organic' home grown ( ) <--- insert whatever..... As I alluded to earlier, we are becoming consumers of this 'green' movement, it's easy and oh so fashionable.
It just doesn't warm your heart when you send money to a charity for mosquito nets, because how do you know that the money is actually helping the people and not being spent on administrative costs?.... you don't... and maybe this is what we should be addressing.