In a disaster, if everyone survives then things will be all right. Life goes on, as long as you survive.
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Even a global disaster isn't an apocalypse in these stories, because life goes on more or less like it did before, even if that form is superficially different.
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It's fine for a story to be complacent in this way; not everything needs to have radicalizing themes.
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Increasingly, it becomes attractive to look at nuclear war as a disaster instead of an apocalypse because we survived the real disaster of nuclear brinksmanship, as I said.
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But nuclear war remains tied up with our still-current climate crisis.
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Not only in the sense that even limited nuclear war would itself be a climate crisis in the real world
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Both nuclear brinksmanship and our current real climate crisis are products of industrial production turned rampant and cancerous
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The US's thermonuclear military strategy was (and still is) based largely on a mass of cheaply built ICBMs scattered across the country. More than we'd ever need, too many to possibly consume.
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The US military remains a significant polluter, even before you take into account the cost of the supporting production.
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Even in peacetime, militaries always resist reducing consumption and emissions because it compromises lethality.
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You gotta admit, if the planet dies, that’s ultimate lethality though. Mission Accomplished!
Le chargement semble prendre du temps.
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