Nuclear Menace, Climate Danger
According to Joseph Masco, the two key existential dangers of our time are climate disruption and nuclear weapons. The first, he maintains, is the product of petrochemical capitalism; around the second an elaborate, fear-based U.S. national security culture has been constructed. Masco contends that addressing these twin crises requires grasping their origins and pursuing fundamental structural transformation.\nJoseph Masco, The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making Duke University Press, 2021\n(Photo by Darwin Laganzon.)\nThe post Nuclear Menace, Climate Danger appeared first on KPFA.