Move Over Climate Change, This Is The Greatest Threat To Humanity
An old threat that people largely ignore
The bulk of today’s apocalyptic language is aimed at climate change. Politicians and activists alike have labeled climate change as an existential crisis, the greatest threat we face, and lament how humanity is out of time to fix the problem. That is all well and good but that is not the biggest threat humanity faces.
The biggest modern threat to humanity is seventy five years old and does not garner nearly as much attention it deserves.
That threat is nuclear annihilation.
Much was made about nuclear weapons and their destructive power during the Cold War but since the fall of the USSR, much of the talk surrounding nukes has dissipated. The problem is, the nuclear weapons are still there.
In fact, nuclear weapons are quietly being modernized, expanded, and redeployed.
I fear humanity will blow itself to pieces long before the climate changes enough to do us in. Nuclear weapons are still the #1 threat our species faces.
More modern, more deadly, less concern
Climate change has taken over as the world’s newest doomsday darling. First, it was population growth and…
