The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Mankind has actually flourished in warmer temperatures.
For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion.
There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it.
Human-caused climate change threatens almost every aspect of human existence.
If we are to be destroyed we will do it ourselves by warfare with thermonuclear weaponry.
The only thing that kept the Cold War cold was the mutual deterrence afforded by nuclear weapons.
We can't take climate change and put it on the back burner. If we don't address climate change, we won't be around as humans.
We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases.
If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees.
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