Yes, the below bothers me so much, the idea that the Y2K bug was not a real threat. And the entire reason it didn’t end up being much of a problem is that hundreds of thousands of people spent many years and billions of hours working to correct it and ameliorate any potential issues.

This is a very important general point: people are far too inclined to believe that a crisis averted was never a crisis at all. pic.twitter.com/vuJNvid0Bb

— David Andress (@ProfDaveAndress) September 3, 2017

It’s a complete myth that the Y2K bug was not big deal. It simply was a problem that was fixed before the worst of it hit. Trust me, utility and private companies don’t just spend billions of dollars for absolutely no reason (not if they could hand it to execs instead).

With climate change, we are going to experience the opposite of the Y2K bug. Compare and contrast.