The united states is an existential threat to all life on earth, and there can be no peace or security until it is dealt with
Once you strip out all of the PR about democracy, freedoms, etc, the US really does fit pretty well as the single biggest threat to continued existence on earth: massive nuclear stockpile on a hair trigger, massive globe spanning network of carbon emitting and resource extracting enterprises, attempting to develop ai with minimal safeguards and autonomous weapons, etc.
There are other countries that do some or all of these things, but in aggregate, the US is, for now, gotta be the single largest threat. Possibly another country will take up this mantle in the future.
All that said, I’m not convinced at this point that it can be avoided. It may just be what happens one way or another with humans at these kinds of scales, or a natural progression of technology snuffing itself out. Doesn’t make it any nicer to contemplate though.
This is both completely downplaying the entirety of the human condition and also ignoring basically the entirety of modern human history, and you think you’re smart for posting it anyway.
8 billion stupid monkeys, incapable of doing anything but fucking the planet up worse and worse.
This reads like an onion article. Is hard to believe how stupid and malicious these people are.
Even though that move LITERALLY only Benefits the Billionaire Coal Companies it’s PROOF that Republicans CARE about the Working Class!