existential

Yet the existential crises facing our species — climate change, plastic pollution, the eradication of species — can only be solved through realistic solutions, like reducing emissions and protecting old growth forests.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says the United States faces an existential threat because of its insistence on behaving like an imperial power.

“I just don’t know if there’s a connection, any real existential threat that their rights are being further eroded than they have been.”

He was there in search of some existential answers, he said, “because this is not me. This doesn’t reflect my values. How did I get here?”

Other lawmakers have defended Jung, with Lee So-young, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea, saying that “deciding to live with someone is a deeply personal and existential choice”.