> nuclear and climate security
There's the problem. They've destroyed the credibility of one of the most powerful symbols of several generations. Running with scissors.
There's the problem. They've destroyed the credibility of one of the most powerful symbols of several generations. Running with scissors.
A nuclear war is a much more concentrated and immediate event. It could start at the press of a button and be over in days/weeks (in terms of immediate damage). There is something visceral and terrifying about it's rapidity.
A climate catastrophe is fundamentally slower, and even if the damage would be far greater, it feels less of a threat (very subjectively). It's easier to handwave it away. "People will think of something" is easier to say when a process happens over decades than when it happens in days.
One can conveniently live in the phantasy that "I'll be climate conscious from tomorrow/next week/next year" for the time being, because the effects are still not terrible (for the 1st world).