Turning, breaking, or vanishing point?
Jeffrey Braithwaite |
TEDxMacquarieUniversity
• September 2019
Tsutomo Yamaguchi was the only person ever to be within a couple of miles of the only two nuclear bombs ever used on people. A survivor of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki detonations, he went on to live a fruitful life, living till he was 93. His story is one of triumph, and is a metaphor for our times. In the Anthropocene, the modern era, will humanity survive the potential destruction of nuclear proliferation, climate change and a world in peril? We seem to be reaching, in the decade of the 2020s, a turning point. It may end up being a pivot to a sustainable future, or may end up being a breaking point, and ultimately, a vanishing point for ourselves and many of the other species of the earth.