Noam
Chomsky
TomDispatch.com, June 4,
2013
“What
is the future likely to bring? A reasonable stance might be to try to look at
the human species from the outside. So imagine that you're an extraterrestrial
observer who is trying to figure out what's happening here or, for that matter,
imagine you're an historian 100 years from now -- assuming there are any
historians 100 years from now, which is not obvious -- and you're looking back
at what's happening today. You'd see something quite remarkable.
For
the first time in the history of the human species, we have clearly developed
the capacity to destroy ourselves. That's been true since 1945. It's now being
finally recognized that there are more long-term processes like environmental
destruction leading in the same direction, maybe not to total destruction, but
at least to the destruction of the capacity for a decent existence.” READ MORE
