Could you be with a partner who doesn't believe in climate change?

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DH doesn't really think it's all that bad. He thinks we should be recyling more and caring for the planet as makes sense and is just the right thing to do - but that climate change as a disaster is an exaggeration and not based in science. And that people are utilising it for their own agenda, woke brigade & so on.

We have young kids.

AIBU to find this position increasingly problematic?

People are going to say people are allowed different opinions but he seems geniunely unconcerned about future of planet for our kids - and I find that hard to swallow.

No, generally people of that opinion tend to have some other pretty tedious traits and problematic opinions too.

It doesn't really matter whether your DH believes it or not because it's too late to do anything about it now anyway.

I'll continue to recycle and sip out of a soggy paper straw but without governments and corporations doing their bit it was always gonna fail.

Isn't he entitled to his own opinion, just as you are?

Yes.

You'd break-up a family because of this?????

It isn't something I'd break up a family over.

Climate change denialism is on par with racism or homophobia in terms of partner dealbreakers. Mind you I’m not sure I could be with him just for using the term “woke brigade” so perhaps I wouldn’t be with a climate change denier in the first place to have to put him in the recycling bin.

Just don't talk about it. Who knows, maybe he's right?!

All the predictions thus far have been wrong so I am with your DH on this. Now if the government wanted to fixate on the corporations causing pollution in this world I would be first in line but they don’t. They want you to pay more money and lower your standards of living to change the weather. The planet has been heating and cooling since time began. This time they have the media propaganda machine behind them for this agenda 2030.

Nope. I couldn't. Sorry.

There is a lot of exaggeration going on about climate change as a disaster.
Ive been reading articles talking about how this rise of climate doomism is as bad as if not worse than climate denial.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-61495035

https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/facing-the-fear-of-fear-itself-the-case-for-climate-optimism

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/03/24/climate-doomers-ipcc-un-report/

https://theconversation.com/climate-doomism-is-bad-storytelling-hope-is-much-more-effective-at-triggering-action-202401

Yeah. People have their own opinions. No worries.

Exactly this ⬆️

I would think he wasn’t very intelligent and that would put me off. I wouldn’t be with someone like that but presumably it’s not a new thing and you married him.

You can end a relationship for any reason including differing views on this Issue if it’s something you can’t accept.

I don't think it matters
He is still recycling and looking to care for the planet.

If he believed in it is there more he would do? e.g drive less / get a smaller car / get rid of any pets / go vegan.

Do you already want to do some of these and he is not on board?
If so is it a general lifestyle issue rather than beliefs?

Having a different opinion is one thing, but denying the scientific facts of climate change isn't a 'difference of opinion'. It's at worst stupid and at best irrational.

I'm not saying I would necessarily break up an otherwise great relationship over that one thing alone, but I think the climate change denial thing would almost inevitably be indicative of other beliefs and personality traits that I would find difficult to stomach in a partner.

People are entitled to their own opinions.They are not entitled to their own facts.

I was going to say that I don’t care if people ’believe’ or not, the important thing is that believer or not do/don’t do something about it.
But then I read you have kids!
Why did you have kids, not only one but multiple, if you know about the climate change. And care about this planet?
Little recycle or waging your finger at non-believers isin’t going to help or change a damn thing.

I'd be seriously put off him by this. I guess I wouldn't split though if everything else is good.

What do you want from him though? I often see posts in here from people working themselves up into a froth about climate change and I think I could never be married to someone like that. Be chill about it or be frothy about it, the end result is the same. Practically I just don't think it matters, I'd just avoid that convo with him.

I'd happily be married to someone who held a different view to mine on subjects where intelligent people hold different views. That doesn't include climate change.

It's academic anyway as my vagina would have sealed itself shut irrevocably when he used the phrase "woke brigade".

Going by your op wording he hasn’t said he’s a a disbeliever of climate change just he has a different opinion to it than you do.

I like your husband am a cynic who thinks it’s being utilised for revenue rather than to make any significant worthwhile changes and I speak as part of a industrial sector that early adapted into clean production and has been pushed back every conceivable way by governmental interference every step of the way.

this. the climate change deniers I know are also the anti-vaxxers and general conspiracy theorists. No thanks.

So what do you want him to actually do, apart from agree with you

I'd struggle with it. I'd assume he wasn't very bright. I associate climate change deniers with people who voted for Brexit and would vote for Trump.