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"One of the most striking facts of today’s world is that young people do not seem to worry very much about nuclear war. Climate change is by far the larger concern, while nuclear war is seen as a threat of the past." bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
This is true--for some reason people think it's a worry "of the past"--and utterly unjustified. It's an enormous threat, and terribly underestimated by the US public.
There is a small, but real, that climate change could prove catastrophic for humanity. There is no doubt that a nuclear war (save for a very limited exchange, which is unlikely) would be catastrophic, and while quantifying the risk is difficult,
we're in a better position to do so than we are with climate change. We understand the effects of the Bomb--and the circumstances under which nuclear war could erupt--much better than we do the climate.
Our widespread sense that this risk is "in the past" is peculiar, very hard to understand, and worth a lot more study.
