Noam Chomsky, the noted linguist who came under fire from Lyndon LaRouche in the 1980s for his deconstruction of the English language, gave an interview with RT’s “Going Underground” on Jan. 21. (https://www.rt.com/news/570269-chomsky-irreversible-nuclear-war/ )
RT reported that Chomsky warned, “in recent years the Doomsday Clock, which reflects how close humanity is to Armageddon, has moved closer to midnight, which symbolizes the extinction of humanity. He suggested that in several days it could be set even closer to this mark.”
He outlined the three factors threatening mankind today: “an increasing threat of nuclear war"; “a very severe and growing threat of destruction of climate"; and “the deterioration of an arena of rational serious debate and deliberation” combined with “the collapse of democratic forces” around the world.
He emphasized that reviving rational debate and deliberation was the only hope of addressing the danger of nuclear war.
RT quotes him, “All three [factors] have gotten considerably worse during the past year, and unless there’s a sharp reversal, we’ll simply be heading for a precipice, falling over, irreversible, and not in the long distant future.”
The 94-year-old Chomsky is a Laureate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. (https://www.rt.com/shows/going-underground/570180-chomsky-nuclear-war-threat/ )
