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.
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Replying to @SamoBurja
nuclear apocalypse being both plausible and near-term seems like an important difference
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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit @SamoBurja
i'd disagree with the model that there's a constant amount of end of world expectation and it just gets channeled into different things. major increase recently
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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit
I don't think it is constant. It obviously fluctuates, but current climate ennui isn't unprecedented. Nuclear war remains as much of a threat but few now experience ennui over it.
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Replying to @SamoBurja
it's still a threat but less so than when people had ennui
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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit @SamoBurja
Many experts disagree. See for example the Doomsday clock:https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/past-statements/ …
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Replying to @rothosphere @SamoBurja
makes you really wonder whether you can trust experts as filtered through the journalistic-activistic complex, doesn't it?
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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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Replying to @VesselOfSpirit @SamoBurja
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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Replying to @rothosphere @SamoBurja
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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i don't know how much of their claim that it's two minutes to midnight comes from climate and other risks as opposed to nuclear
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