The suffering climate change is causing is immense. To all life. Not just humans. And animals value living.
In other words, animal life is valuable in its own right. It doesn’t need to be equated to how their lives benefit us.
In fact, I think doing so can kill compassion. Animals are not a commodity here to benefit people and this sort of reduction of life to commodities for people to enjoy or exploit, stems largely from the same colonial capitalist mindset that is causing mass extinction in the first place.