@faab64@petergleick Yes, do they think the nuclear fallout aka. "nuclear winter" is not hitting them? Do they think the Russian (or any other "evil empire"'s army) don't have these "little firecrackers", too?
@roland
Even a small scale nuclear conflict will have devastating consequences for the world. Specially at the time we are facing a climate catastrophe and risk of mass migration because of climate change.
@faab64@petergleick Yes, the problem is that younger generations cannot "feel" or understand what that means because they did not experience disasters like #Chernobyl or #Fukushima . My father is a reservist now (German #Bundeswehr ) and he was with the air force (Luftwaffe) and he brought at that time a #Geiger counter home and it was "cracking", means counting radiation. I'm glad my daughter is healthy, it didn't damage my DNA.
Remember in 2003 when The Economist backed the Iraq War, or in 2006 when they said a real-estate based finance bubble was impossible, or in 2008 when they said austerity was the way to recover? The Economist has a long history of buying into every ridiculous ruling-class idea.
Better not go back to the 1860s and see what they said about slavery.
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