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It is difficult for me to explain to Kids These Days what, exactly growing up in the late Cold War was like; all I can say is that I am so delighted that kids today do not have to grow up under the threat of those two miserable swords of Damocles.

We all knew, we were rock solid CERTAIN, that we were going to die at a time and a place not of our choosing; we’d either be incinerated by nuclear hellfire or we’d live long enough to get HIV and die that way.

I don’t understand people who believe in climate doom because if you’ve ever talked to anybody who remembers the past you know that there’s just always a thing people believe will destroy the world, it always seems rational, and it’s never happened

It's not going to destroy the world or make humans extinct, but it will cause a great deal of death, disease, dislocation, and general human misery that we could have and should have avoided.

When I refer to climate doomers I refer to people I know IRL or on here who are not going to be immisserated but see the knowledge of climate issues as justification for nihilism