New World of Indigenous Resistance by Noam Chomsky

Operative questions have to do with the sociopolitical and cultural conditions that constrain their use. A few years later, 70 years ago, the U.S., then Russia, tested thermonuclear weapons, revealing that human intelligence had “advanced” to the capacity to destroy everything. We have been surviving under a sword of Damocles since the bombing of Hiroshima. Weapons systems steadily become more dangerous and more ominous. Nothing is certain, but this seems a far too plausible assessment. If major steps are not taken within the next few decades, the world is likely to reach a point of no return, facing decline to indescribable catastrophe. Noam Chomsky: The climate crisis is unique in human history and is getting more severe year by year. Can you explain in comparative terms why you think that the world is today significantly more dangerous than it used to be? Why do you think so? Are nuclear weapons more dangerous today than they were in the past? Is the surge in right-wing authoritarianism in recent years more dangerous than the rise and subsequent spread of fascism in the 1920s and 1930s? Or is it because of the climate crisis, which you have indeed said represents the biggest threat the world has ever faced. Polychroniou: Noam, you have said on numerous occasions that the world is at the most dangerous point in human history. In the interview that follows, Noam Chomsky, our greatest public intellectual alive, examines and analyses the state of the world with his usual brilliant insights, while explaining in the process why we are at the most dangerous point in human history and why nationalism, racism, and extremism are rearing their ugly heads all over the world today.Ĭ. The U.S., meanwhile, is bent on maintaining global hegemony when international collaboration is urgently needed to address the planet’s numerous challenges. We live in a world facing existential threats while extreme inequality is tearing our societies apart and democracy is in sharp decline.

New World of Indigenous Resistance by Noam Chomsky