What Should We Fear the Most?

[Zinjanthropos]

This week it’s WWIII or nuclear war. Recent past has seen the flu, pollution, climate change, wildfires, and even asteroid hits. Even Betelgeuse may spray us with deadly radiation if it blew up 500 years ago. Our pending apocalypse or end of civilization/humanity, what’s to be afraid of?

[C C]

Too many people. Now that they all want the resource-demanding toys of the West, there's no getting around how it would be much less stress for us and the planet if there were a half billion of us. Or a billion if the rabbit cult ideologies couldn't abide less than that mark.

Far too late to do any good, though, even if magic was possible. But if it wasn't... Definitely not Prince Philip's dream of being reincarnated as the deadliest of all viruses. Just an infectious one that rendered its victims sterile after the mildest of symptoms. "Ma and Pa Kettle still lived to be over a hunnert, but that dream of 15 kids got clipped at four. Discounting the 11 they adopted."

[Syne]

Overpopulation is a myth.

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So are most the others, and many of them ignore human innovation. There's been no world world since the advent of nuclear weapons, for that very reason. No one but backwater extremists are dumb enough to pick a fight with the US. Climate change is just the latest in a long list of disproven predictions that have ranged from a coming ice age to no more snow or polar caps.

It's all people trying to scare you so you cede them power.

[Leigha]

Fear is often illusory. Whenever I fear something bad happening, it usually never does. Or I’m given a way out. Anticipating the worst often creates more fear than what we actually fear, in most cases.

[Zinjanthropos]

Fear is often illusory. Whenever I fear something bad happening, it usually never does. Or I’m given a way out. Anticipating the worst often creates more fear than what we actually fear, in most cases.

Are you more fearful of natural catastrophes or of fellow humans which could be an individual(s) or something we're responsible for?