[dwroberts]

> ours seems to be climate collapse. It used to be nuclear war

Except climate collapse is actually happening already, gradually.

There were escalating tensions during the Cold War, but it wasn’t like there were actual nukes being dropped in slow motion

[zeroonetwothree]

Collapse by definition is not gradual

[unethical_ban]

This is really avoiding the obvious point being made.

Here's a other analogy to avoid your criticism: if a plane runs out of gas midair, it doesn't immediately crash, but it's going to.

[dwroberts]

Go watch a big chimney stack being demolished. It hangs around in the air for a long time, before it is suddenly gone. But it’s definitely collapsing the whole time.

[JKCalhoun]

"Gradually, then suddenly.”

(Feels like a Hemingway quote fits rather nicely here.)

[jmye]

Ahh, good, parsing words. I can tell you have a lot of useful and interesting things to say.

So tired of people trying to pass off pseudointellectual pedanticism as useful or additive insight.