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So if you equate GW to nukes, then you acknowledge it is a very serious threat with the potential to wipe out most of humanity? While nuclear war did not happe
by chillwaves 10y ago
So if you equate GW to nukes, then you acknowledge it is a very serious threat with the potential to wipe out most of humanity?
While nuclear war did not happen, there is nothing to suggest that it could not have happened. That it was a "boogeyman" as you suggest.
- mikeash 10y agoNuclear annihilation should not be discussed as if it lies entirely in the past, either. There are thousands of warheads ready to be fired on a moment's notice. MAD didn't disappear with the fall of the Soviet Union, people just stopped paying attention to it.
- IanDrake 10y agoEqual in terms of generating fear, yes. In terms of causing extinction level events, no.