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I do think this is worse than any of the things you listed.

• AnimalMuppet 7y ago
  If this results in the collapse of civilization, it will definitely be worse than any of the things I listed (none of which resulted in the collapse of civilization). If. There's two ways to try to analyze this. One is to look from a 2019-centric perspective, where we know that nuclear war didn't cause the collapse of civilization, but we don't know whether climate change will. From that perspective, "might" looks worse than "definitely didn't". But I think that's kind of an unfair comparison. The other way to try to compare is to look at how likely it looked when you didn't know the outcome. That's kind of subjective, so I can't really argue with your opinion if you're evaluating things the second way. To me, though, having been in both places, the 1980s frightened me considerably more. (There may be a stage-of-life thing, too. I was 18 in 1980. Maybe the danger that you see around that age is the danger that you fear the most.) Anyway, those are just some thoughts. I can't prove you wrong... but I sure hope you are.