There's Existential and There's Existential

But here is a prediction: If the government can order society to cease functioning, from restaurants and other businesses to schools, due to a possible health disaster, it is highly likely that a Democratic president and Congress will similarly declare emergency and assert authoritarian rule in order to prevent what they consider the even greater "existential threat" to human life posed by global warming. [More]

I think the difference here is it's harder to convince skeptics that the "threat" is imminent and that draconian measures are needed, and that could very well be the economy destroyer that makes normal men spit on their hands and raise the black flag.

It never seems to occur to Praeger that some will not go gentle into that good night.

[Via Mack H]