Is climate change the biggest threat humanity faces?

It poses the widest systemic risk to lives, food, water, health, economies, and geopolitical stability.

It is a systemic, accelerating crisis that threatens the global ecosystems, food security, and habitability required to sustain human civilization.

While serious, climate change competes with nuclear war, pandemics, and unaligned AI as catastrophic risks, and unlike them it unfolds slowly enough to allow adaptation.