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Humanity’s most extraordinary achievement is that we are still alive, despite having 8 or 9 countries with nuclear weapons
by gexaha 5y ago
Humanity’s most extraordinary achievement is that we are still alive, despite having 8 or 9 countries with nuclear weapons
- lapetitejort 5y agoFundamental physics helped with this accomplishment!
- amelius 5y agoDepends on how you read it.
- revscat 5y agoFor now. Going to be much more difficult for this to continue when the average temperatures are 10° higher. And I can very well see a situation arise where nuclear weapons are used because of pressures from climate change, say between India and Pakistan. I think we were able to survive the Cold War because the threat was literally explosive: highly visible and quickly understandable. For longer term, quieter threats like climate change humanity does not appear to have the capability to avoid its destruction, or even the will to do so.