> hey this is OK, we can relax and this is just the same old same old Another important point is that the “same old same old” wasn’t actually that good for ple

> hey this is OK, we can relax and this is just the same old same old Another important point is that the “same old same old” wasn’t actually that good for plenty of people. The point of understanding history like the world wars is to understand the ideas that led to them and hopefully learn a few lessons. Well, extreme economic distress along with xenophobic nationalist rhetoric led to the rise of Nazism. It’s hard to avoid comparisons when similar rhetoric gets used in the modern day. It led to wars in the past, so it is hugely fair to at least be cautious about it today. While climate change is a new one, if we indeed can’t reverse the effects (even if we keep it stable from now on), we’d still be looking at big changes wrt food and water sources. It’s completely fair to be concerned that could lead to resource scarcity. We know from history that when that happens, you get total revolution (see France and Russia). So if that’s a possible outcome, it’s fair to think “ok, how do we avoid that?” Sure, scaremongering is wrong, and media does it all the time by over-emphasizing the amount of murders compared to, say, the amount of cancer cases. But there are still loads of things that should hopefully make us concerned for our future and try to do better in the present.