I do agree with that, and to an extent the statues are a symptom, but saving the statues won't save the Enlightenment. You have to fix the thinking.

Franklin again: "[I believe this government] can only end in Despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic Government, being incapable of any other."

We've allowed ourselves to get unconscionably close to being so corrupted as to be incapable of any other government.

However, humans are ridiculously adaptable. People with stone-age tech living above the arctic circle?! Polynesians on Easter Island, surviving even though they'd cut down all their trees?! Climate change doesn't doom humanity. We'll get through it (unless we destroy ourselves another way). But climate change could cause an unprecedented amount of suffering, so it is worth taking extremely seriously.