People have this impression — this mis-impression — because we don’t teach them about climate change much at all. Kids barely learn about it in school, adults get most of their info on the subject from pundits, who are paid to make equivalences between propaganda and reality, and the result is that our culture takes Netflix movies more seriously than the planet being altered in ways that haven’t occurred for hundreds of millions of years, endangering all life on it. It’s not “climate change” — a right wing lobbyist invented that term — it’s an extinction.