Why nuclear war, not the climate crisis, is humanity’s biggest threat, according to one author | Nuclear weapons

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1. Unfortunately, deciding which of them is the biggest threat ain’t gonna help.

   One of them may happen, and would be a disaster.
   The other is happening, and will be a slower disaster.

2. Let’s argue about this

3. Bit silly – unlike climate change those who engage in nuclear war are likely to die from its consequences, which acts as a natural restraint.

4. Eventually nuclear war is indeed resulting in another form of climate disaster.

5. You know what’s worse than cancer….being tortured and then murdered….

   Okay what’s their point, it’s not an either / or. Treat the cancer and take steps to prevent the murder.

6. A lot of the current wars are probably happening due to climate crisis. Probably the same reason Trump’s billionare friends are trying to make him go after Canada and greenland

7. Um… Russia is restarting their nuclear weapons program, China is adding more, let see.. speed running North Korea on adding more stockpile.. the recent ‘spat’ between Pakistan and India.. oh yeah.. Iran’s nuclear developments and also Saudi Arabia is already initiating their nuclear ambitions. Let see now, Europe’s re-armament, and more!

8. not useful imho

9. He knew about nuclear winter.

   He forgot about nuclear winter?

   He started researching nuclear winter.

   He said he discovered something worse than nuclear winter.

   He describes this worse thing, which is…literally just nuclear winter.

   Am I missing something? From this article it kinda seems like he just wants to be relevant. Yeah, nuclear winter will be horrifically bad *if it happens*. The climate crisis is a very bad thing that is *definitely happening right now*.

10. A nuclear war may be the world’s greatest threat … but

    Climate change is the world’s greatest crisis bc it is happening now.

11. You’re joking right? 😂

12. To say tRump will bring the other nuclear powers to the table to create some form of protection for the planet is not seeing tRump for who he is.

    He doesn’t care about us or the planet. He only cares that he fulfills his insatiable shitty desire for money and power and will do whatever it takes to get that.

    He’s more likely to piss off the world taking us closer to a nuclear war than taking us away from it due to his inability to care for anything outside of his filthy wet dream of being the richest and most powerful man in the world.

13. Who is likely to go nuke?

    Some combo of US/UK/France – China – Russia, which I deem unlikely, unless a rogue bunch gets a weapon or three when Russia falls apart.

    Other than that, the only other significant collection of nukes is India-Pakistan. They’re more likely, in my opinion.

    But overall, RIGHT NOW TODAY the climate crisis is getting steadily worse.

    IMO I think a writer needed to write something that would sell and that’s how we got here.

14. Nuclear war (multiple strikes by each nation involved) would cause climate change, too. So, the bigger danger is climate change, regardless.

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