Climate apocalypse distress among the young isn't a new phenomena. Nuclear apocalypse produced a very similar mass psychology. Perhaps the phenomena even predates nuclear weapons. I wonder for how long the young have felt the world will end in 20-30 years.
i mean come on, obviously the risk of nuclear war is lower than during times of high tension between ideological mortal enemy nuclear superpowers. close calls used to be pretty common and now don't seem to be
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General sentiment is that threat of nuclear war is lower than during the Cold War, but that could be radically decoupled from what the threat *actually* is. Did you read the Bulletin's statement?
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yes. seems to me it says "here are some worrying developments" but doesn't make a case that they're as likely to lead to nuclear war as cold war tensions were
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