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One major fault of this article is the way in which it induces a confusion between a hypothetical event, diversely imagined and theorized along history (both in religious thought and outside it), with a specific (yet not monolithic) framework that emerged in the very recent period and became known mainly as 'existential risk', especially in philosophical literature, which is substantially related, even a byproduct, of the longtermist ethics. "Global catastrophic risk" works well as a generalization of specific catastrophic scenarios that date from the atomic bomb invention to the theorization of extreme global warming scenarios or even uncontrollable virus pandemic. In this sense, global catastrophic risk could be thought as the nonfiction dimension of fictional apocalyptic scenarios, corresponding to the article apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction. This confusion is problematic because it hurts the principle of undue weight, as one specific research program is allowed to define the whole idea, which is historically irreducible such attempt of framing; the field of studies itself also suffers from this restrictive linkage, as it is not allowed the necessary space and the freedom to develop its own history, ideas and institutions.
@JoaquimCebuano It's possible that the field of study is a more distinct topic and that organizing around it would address the problem that the 2020 draft ran into. Still, it would need stronger support than you have provided. WeyerStudentOfAgrippa (talk) 12:15, 3 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Does the image of an asteroid hitting the Earth deserve to be at the top here? On one side, it's a simple image that anyone can understand. But on the other side, it doesn't really provide information, and the probability of a very large asteroid hitting the Earth is relatively negligible (less than 1 in a million per century, even ignoring possible countermeasures). So it may give a biased impression of the importance of this kind of risk. Alenoach (talk) 04:33, 5 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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