The US spent trillions of 2020 dollars trying to limit the threat of nuclear war, and this statement says that AI risk should be seen as a similar level of threat.

The EAs put it above climate change

It is coming before climate change. No matter which group "put it" reality doesn't care. Humanity will not get extinct in the next 10 years by climate but many AI scientists think there is a chance this happens with AI.

I didn’t mean “EA = bad” to be clear.

It's not like humankind is doing much to stop coral bleaching... despite corals being the living ground for 80% of marine species.

Coral bleaching, nuclear war, and pandemics.