You can believe climate change is a serious problem without believing it is necessarily an extinction-level event. It is entirely possible that in the worst case, the human race will just continue into a world which sucks more than it necessarily has to, with less quality of life and maybe lifespan.
A set of beliefs which causes somebody to waste their life in misery, because they think doom is imminent and everything is therefore pointless, is never a reasonable set of beliefs to hold. Whatever the weight of the empirical evidence behind the belief, it would be plainly unreasonable to accept that belief if accepting it condemns you to a wasted life.
You can treat climate change as your personal Ragnarok, but its also possible to take a more sober view that climate change is just bad without it being apocalyptic.
You can believe climate change is a serious problem without believing it is necessarily an extinction-level event. It is entirely possible that in the worst case, the human race will just continue into a world which sucks more than it necessarily has to, with less quality of life and maybe lifespan.
If you consider it to be halfway to that, it's still enough to reasonably consider an overriding concern compared to other things.
I never said I held the belief, just that it's reasonable
A set of beliefs which causes somebody to waste their life in misery, because they think doom is imminent and everything is therefore pointless, is never a reasonable set of beliefs to hold. Whatever the weight of the empirical evidence behind the belief, it would be plainly unreasonable to accept that belief if accepting it condemns you to a wasted life.
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You can treat climate change as your personal Ragnarok, but its also possible to take a more sober view that climate change is just bad without it being apocalyptic.
You have a very popular set of beliefs.