"...Survival
is a word we all understand: I would like to know whether there is
going to be a decent world in which, say, my grandchildren can live:
that's the question of survival. The survival of the human species is
by no means an obvious thing: there are very severe threats to survival
and we learn about them all the time. The threat of environmental
destruction is much too real to put to the side: the threat of
destruction by the weapons of mass destruction --that has come very
close many times... major threats are predicted in large part as a
consequence of government policies... so [decent] survival of the
species is by no means a sure thing..."
--Noam Chomsky referring to one of his books, Hegemony or Survival |
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