Things That Were Presumed Public Enemy #1 (or Foremost Threat)
As someone who grew up in the 80s, I remember that "climate change" and/or "global warming" were already in the common vocabulary. We were told about the threats more than about the causes (yes, pollution, but that's mostly proportional to population size and the overpopulation aspect ought to be glaring owing to global population almost doubling in my lifetime). The Cold War was coming to an "end" (or merely a pause, temporary half; the nukes still existed), so towards the 90s people obsessed over the prosperity brought about by "tech" (until the bubble burst). In later years people began recognising tech(nology) itself as a growing threat, as super-rich oligarchs became associated with it, mass surveillance became a "norm" (to be universally expected; even "phones" became just some spying device you carry around and sometimes use to receive/place calls).
In more recent times we saw fears of a Cold War rebounding, as tanks get replaced by drones in the battlefield and some "tech" literally explodes in people's fists (or faces).
In spite of our efforts to include many links about climate in our Daily Links, we no longer find many of them (of acceptable quality). There seems to be this growing consensus that tech giants (or "contractors") like GAFAM with their drones and undersea cables and satellites are the "new warzone" (they even use inane terms like "AI arms race", perhaps alluding to disinformation - a form of psychological warfare with lots of covert censorship). As Dr. Andy Farnell put it last month: "They see their companies as "too big to fail". They feel unstoppable and are now drunk on power. Under the second Trump regime they've knelt before their new master and embraced an extreme creed. This is a dangerous time for technology as an enabler of peace and prosperity."
We're not experts in nukes (heck, the US has just laid of its own experts in nukes!), so we'll try to cover the tech(nology) side of things.
The world's most powerful military is now governed by clowns who don't know what the heck they're doing (strutting around with a chainsaw is further evidence they think like children or megalomaniacs on drugs).
"The world has turned crazy," bosque-protector.com said yesterday in Gemini, but that does not mean we should give up; we should at least try to make it less crazy. █