[FORUM] Do you worry about catastrophes?
May. 21st, 2011 08:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rfmcdonaldToday the 21st of May has had a lot of people joking about predictions of the apocalypse, or the rapture, or whatever that California preacher has been talking about. But are you concerned about serious catastrophes--local, global--in real life?
I'm happy I never had any experience of the Cold War era. Towards the end, it seems to have become insanely risky and destructive. With tens of thousands of Soviet warheads, thought may well have been spared by Kremlin strategists to annihilate Charlottetown and Summerside, the provincial capital and site of a Canadian military base. (If your strategic plan involves immediately killing half of the population of Prince Edward Island, go back to first principles.) Without the threat of nuclear annihilation, though, there are still risks. What about global economic malaise leading to renewed tensions? What about environmental issues? What about asteroid impacts?
Discuss.
I'm happy I never had any experience of the Cold War era. Towards the end, it seems to have become insanely risky and destructive. With tens of thousands of Soviet warheads, thought may well have been spared by Kremlin strategists to annihilate Charlottetown and Summerside, the provincial capital and site of a Canadian military base. (If your strategic plan involves immediately killing half of the population of Prince Edward Island, go back to first principles.) Without the threat of nuclear annihilation, though, there are still risks. What about global economic malaise leading to renewed tensions? What about environmental issues? What about asteroid impacts?
Discuss.
