Just how dangerous is space debris?

I didn’t watch the whole video… feels like click-bait.

Sure, maybe all of the debris added up is the mass of a cruise ship, but then they show a cruise ship orbiting the Earth that would be the size of Europe and Asia put together.

It’s clearly not a good thing, but why does the issue of space debris always get exaggerated by like 50 orders of magnitude?

This a huge issue that has insanely far reaching consequences. Didn’t watch the video and don’t really care to but I attended a talk by a professor in my second year of uni that did a simulation of a collision of two satellites in LOE. The result of any satellite collision is that millions of pieces of debris end of settling into totally unique orbits which could place these particles in the path of so many other satellites creating the potential for more collision and then more particles and so on and so forth until LOE is so crammed it becomes impossible to reliably launch vehicles. We needed to start de-orbiting space debris and satellites literally decades ago. Instead, we are sending up ever increasing numbers of micro-satellites for communication infrastructure, weather monitoring, defence etc etc. Starlink and other programs like it are huge drivers of this. We’re going to have a huge reckoning moment soon enough.