This episode on Clearer Thinking really highlights an important question on how we should think about the risks and consequences of climate change: https://podcast.clearerthinking.org/episode/146/diana-%C3%BCrge-vorsatz-and-misha-glouberman-how-huge-a-deal-is-climate-change-really/
This is a question I myself have often been struggling with: is climate change really a unique existential threat to civilization and our way of life? Or is it "just" one of the major issues of our time that is obviously going to cause major suffering, but is ultimately on a similar level as other scary things such as nuclear war, bioengineered pandemics, AI risks, or the fall of democracy as our primary governmental system?
Perhaps even more interesting in this episode is the meta-discussion on how you can get accurate information on these topics as a layperson: should you engage with the arguments of the prominent scientists in the field, or should you instead defer to superforecasters who have a proven track record making predictions across different fields?
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