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I think the real problem is not understanding that it's not a binary bad or good (not understanding might be understating motivations... it is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it and all that).
Yes, realistically we are already well committed to a path that is going to cause great hardship for future generations. But it isn't going to be an extinction level event by itself. We most definitely can still make things worse, even if we've already messed up rather badly.
Hell, even nuclear war wouldn't necessarily be an extinction level event- like something like 97% of people would die, but for that remaining 3% of people, life will suck while they restart the 1000 year process of bringing humanity back out of dark ages II.