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I liked it, and it even gave me a little, stress little, hope for Yale, here he teaches.
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<div class="">A quote:</div>
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<p class=""><i class="">Senator Bernie Sanders was <a href="https://www.wmur.com/article/sanders-reacts-sharply-when-asked-if-he-would-be-capable-of-launching-nuclear-weapons/27670076" target="_blank" class="">
recently asked</a>, “Do you feel you would be capable of using nuclear weapons in defense of the country?” He answered with bitter sarcasm, “Oh, yeah, anytime!” -- and to make the meaning of “greatness” clear, he added: “Am I capable of blowing up the world?”
The interviewer responded that he believed whether or not a politician would order a nuclear strike was “a great moral question.” To this Sanders responded, “It’s a great immoral question.”</i></p>
<p class=""><i class="">There are questions that should never be answered, because they degrade anyone involved in answering or even listening to them. The overriding legitimate question for governments today is this: Will the world end in fire or in flood
-- in nuclear catastrophe or climate catastrophe? With the exception of <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/07/climate/ipcc-climate-report-2040.html" target="_blank" class="">
scientists</a>, a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/06/us/politics/aoc-green-new-deal.html" target="_blank" class="">
few</a> <a href="https://e360.yale.edu/features/tackling-climate-change-governor-jay-inslee-has-a-plan-for-that" target="_blank" class="">
politicians</a>, and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/24/latest-global-school-climate-strikes-expected-to-beat-turnout-record" target="_blank" class="">
increasing numbers</a> of school-age children, most citizens and most of our leaders are looking away from the flood while greeting the fire with clichés as familiar as lullabies. …</i></p>
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<div class="">The full article is smart:</div>
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<div class=""><a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176573/tomgram%3A_david_bromwich%2C_what_it_means_to_be_%22great%22_on_a_planet_going_down" class="">http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176573/tomgram%3A_david_bromwich%2C_what_it_means_to_be_%22great%22_on_a_planet_going_down</a></div>
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