By my personal perspective, being a Boomer, the “existential crisis” we faced in the 50s was the end of access to petroleum by the 70s. Following shortly thereafter, still within the half-century mark, came our crisis of over-population.
Within that 70s decade began a meme that has changed its moniker at least twice, both invented by the same guy in a 1975 article which gave us both Global Warming and Climate Change. [Wallis Broecker, “Climate Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?”, Science, vol. 189 [8 August 1975], 460-473]
The term, “existential threat” became common vernacular. The threat, by the dawn of the 80s, was also a 20-year doomsday, by which date, the great plains would be on fire, and Manhattan would be inundated by AlGore, the prophet of inconvenient truths that turned out to be neither inconvenient, nor truth. Oops. That’s Hollowood
In the late teens of our 21st century, with the plains still producing food in abundance, and Manhattan still had Broadway, our 20-year existential threat is now 12-year cycles: 2030. First, was our climate demise unless we embraced Green Energy. We’re 30 months from that demise, but Green is still just 21% of our US energy grid, yet, according to fools, we could eliminate fossil fuel by the end of Biden’s term. Oops. He didn’t end cancer, either. Still doesn’t know what he’s run Ning for [told us in. 2020 & 2024 he was running for Senate. Multiple times, each].
Now, the 12-year crisis is our demise by A.I.: 2038.
That’s just 60+ years beyond Marion King Hubbert’s oil demise prophecy.
That’s just 40+ years beyond Al Gore’s alleged inundation of Manhattan.
But the New Democrat Party [aka DSA - American socialists] wlll keep trying to carry the 12-year demise fixation banner:
Occasional Cortex [she of House District NY14][aka AOC] is still beating the drum of Woke2.
Maxine Waters [House Dist. CA43] in still reclaiming her time.
AlGore has yet to invent AlGoreGooeyJuice to replace petroleum.
So, what crisis?