Noam Chomsky: Nuclear Weapons and Unchecked Climate Change Are Leading Us Toward Doomsday
"It's now 70 years since the end of the most horrific war in history," the renowned intellectual said in a recent talk. "It ended with the use of an ultimate weapon which can bring human history to an end." He added, soberingly: "We've been living under that shadow ever since."“It’s now 70 years since the end of the most horrific war in history,” the renowned intellectual said in a disquieting recent talk for the Lannan Foundation’s “In Pursuit of Cultural Freedom” lecture series. The war “ended with the use of an ultimate weapon which can bring human history to an end.” Soberingly, Chomsky added: “We’ve been living under that shadow ever since.”
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