Nuclear Menace, Climate Danger

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KPFA - Against the Grain

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According to Joseph Masco [1], 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. (Encore presentation.) Joseph Masco, The Future of Fallout, and Other Episodes in Radioactive World-Making [2] Duke University Press, 2021 photo: Pablo Stanic [3] via Unsplash [1] https://anthropology.uchicago.edu/people/faculty/joseph-masco [2] https://www.dukeupress.edu/the-future-of-fallout-and-other-episodes-in-radioactive-world-making [3] https://unsplash.com/@stanicph