Political and social movements as a whole are so massive and varied that I don’t think I could really give much non-trivial analysis. I’m not sure there’s really a separate category of ‘big problem’ that can be separated out, all movements think their problem is big, and all big problems are composed of smaller problems.
I make the comparison between UFAI and environmentalism because its probably the only major risk that presently is really in public consciousness,* so provides a model of how people will act in response. E.g. the solutions that technical experts favour may not be the ones that the public support even if they agree on the problem.
*A few decades ago nuclear weapons might have also been analogous, but, whether correctly or not, the public perception of their risk has diminished.
Political and social movements as a whole are so massive and varied that I don’t think I could really give much non-trivial analysis. I’m not sure there’s really a separate category of ‘big problem’ that can be separated out, all movements think their problem is big, and all big problems are composed of smaller problems.
I make the comparison between UFAI and environmentalism because its probably the only major risk that presently is really in public consciousness,* so provides a model of how people will act in response. E.g. the solutions that technical experts favour may not be the ones that the public support even if they agree on the problem.
*A few decades ago nuclear weapons might have also been analogous, but, whether correctly or not, the public perception of their risk has diminished.