Tuesday, April 16, 2019

"Only Women Can Stop the Apocalypse"



Excellent article by Xanthe Scharff ( I discovered in a tweet by Helen Caldicott):
Xanthe Scharff (2019, April 15) Only Women Can Stop the Apocalypse: Men make nuclear weapons more dangerous. So why do they still dominate the field? Foreign Policy. Available https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/04/15/only-women-can-stop-the-apocalypse/

...Research shows that, absent women’s full participation in nuclear issues, the potential for risk-taking behavior is higher, negotiated agreements are less likely to hold, and innovative ideas are left unheard....



12 comments:

  1. evil monkey generals that were nucleoapes started this. power mongers. its wat Dr. caldicott has been talking about all these years

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  2. our testoserone fueled military
    mony python
    mr. neutron trailer

    https://youtu.be/VmPgOcyL4K0

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  3. Hillary Clinton, Theresa May and Angela Merkel do not give much hope for this imagining. I do not incline to seek salvation in one gender or another or in one race or another, etc.

    Is the present time really any different from any time in the long human history? I suppose since most people know very little history and regard the past with a great deal of disdain,the result then is that our time seems too unique, too peculiar, too precarious, too much like an end time, the apocalyptic period. Though this can be exciting as witness the abundance of prophesy and end of the world videos at YouTube. And with such enthusiasm for the flat earth hypothesis the idea of being on an edge takes on renewed meaning.

    I might go for only angels can stop the apocalypse. But isn't the Apocalypse inevitable? Shall we wear ourselves out opposing this Inevitable?

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    1. those beasts are some of the worst examples of human beings that I can think of.

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  4. Ulrich Beck, the famous German sociologist of risk, argues that the modern period is distinct because of the human capacity to collectively annihilate itself through technology. So, although apocalyptic thinking has been with us always because of observed limits of human conduct (we knew ourselves capable of self-destruction), it is only now in the modern era that we have mastered the ability to deliver that destruction.

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    1. https://youtu.be/cxEpj-KDAPY

      Helen Caldicott : First womens conference for Nuclear Disarmament all those years ago

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    2. Short chris Busby on Fukushima

      https://nuclear-news.net/2019/04/18/americas-nuclear-lobby-spending-up-big-to-get-millions-in-state-subsidies/

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  5. We may not be the first advanced civilization on this planet. And that is more than mere speculation.

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    1. This is what happens. Propagandists and agents attach to relevent discussions and attempt to degrade with rehashed-canned propaganda. If that does not work, they go with confabulation.

      Have not seen Cullen on inet recently. Cullen backed himself into a corner . He revealed his true colors and true pronuclear bias, with his incessant-arrogant tweeting in defense of cherry picking, half truths and obvious lies about the state of fukushima and the radionuclide pollution it is causing

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    2. Do not pay attention to this thing. It uses straw dogs like this, to degrade discussion of the veey real dangers of man made, and men excavated, radionuclide pollution, that is engulfing us.

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    3. The micro-nova thing worries me a little. But not much, since it is a game over scenario

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  6. The straw-dogger as you say has a relevant point. Humans have the capability of extinguishing ourselves and may have done so several times already.

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