it's hard to pretend an organization is in touch with reality and good faith if it cites climate as a main reason for saying it's "two minutes to midnight". there's ~zero support in the science literature for climate as existential risk let alone near termhttps://twitter.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1088481537744502784 …
they emphasize it approximately as much as nuclear war and a lot more than anything else
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to be clear I agree that there's more focus on climate than a neutral look at the sources of x-risk justifies, I just think that climate being on a list of x-risks is not that unreasonable and am maybe unduly impressed whenever AI, biosecurity, emerging tech is taken seriously.
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i'm going to stop arguing this point because you're doing good work and i feel guilty about giving you socially undesirable beliefs
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