Humans weren't built to handle long term risks. We just weren't. For basically all of our evolutionary history, we were almost overwhelmingly concerned with the short term. What will you eat today, How will you sleep tonight. Problems on the order of days or weeks. At best, the next season. Our intelligence evolved to disregard super long term risks because it simply didn't matter (what use is worrying about 5 years from now if you're starving and a tiger is stalking you?). So when long term risks manifest in our modern world, our brains get scrambled - Climate Change, Fertility Rates etc. "Safety regulations are written in blood" isn't a saying for nothing. Humans have a strong tendency to let long term risks become imminent risks before doing anything about it, and i don't expect this will be any different.

Religion does pretty well with the long term risk of hell if you die, the antichrist, etc. a substantial portion of human output has gone into those things over the millennia.