Creeping changes are something you can adapt to and get used to. Nuclear war was (and still is to an extent) a looming boogeyman whose simultaneous distance and nearness, slowness and quickness makes it a literal nightmare horror-show. I mean, it's a literal sword of Damocles.
> and the government has effectively said that that there will be no intervention.
The government said that about nuclear war, too. No one has ever seriously considered getting rid of the bombs.
The average person isn't so blind they don't see the changes. The frog-boiling experiment is a myth. When there are state-spanning fires that darken the sky across the whole country every year, and hurricanes strong enough to shut down city infrastructure are a regular occurrence, and crops fail and lakes run dry and insects that were so thick twenty years ago you couldn't see through them can no longer be found, people notice. I think these things add up to much more psychological damage than the abstract fear of missiles, even if most don't connect it to climate change directly.
Creeping changes are something you can adapt to and get used to. Nuclear war was (and still is to an extent) a looming boogeyman whose simultaneous distance and nearness, slowness and quickness makes it a literal nightmare horror-show. I mean, it's a literal sword of Damocles.
> and the government has effectively said that that there will be no intervention.
The government said that about nuclear war, too. No one has ever seriously considered getting rid of the bombs.