> You are experiencing survivorship bias

Ex ante survivorship is literally the delineation between existential and not.

> Even if we don't go extinct. It's still an existential threat to our way of life

You see why this comes across as bullshit, though. It’s needlessly redefining a word to seem more punchy. We have plenty of perils we massively mobilize against without imagining they’ll exterminate the human species.