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This year Ehrlich is at it again. In Extinction: The Causes and Consequences of the Disappearance of Species, he argues that the destruction of species will spell disaster for mankind. Yet, though he again brings forth valid and enlightening points, Armageddon still doesn't seem near. Man may cause the death of other species, but the human race's sense of self-preservation will probably stop it from committing mass suicide...
Flirting with big business carries its share of dangers; much worse, though, is the flirtation with Armageddon that underlines Tsongas's chapter on Russia. On the one hand he paints a picture of the Soviet Union, driven equally by ideological fervor and internal stress, as world conqueror. "Most believe that the Soviets would, as Khruschev claimed, 'bury us' if they were provided with a clear opportunity to do so. They are basically correct." America, by contrast, "is not expansionist today, and we seek no dominance, only stability." (When Tsongas first ran for public office we were embroiled in the Vietnam...
...refuse to accept Armageddon, not because I refuse to look at the Bomb's drab snout, but because I have too much faith in humanity to believe that after all our evolution and history, our triumphs and failures, our knowledge and learning, some overreacting Zeus will make us vanish in one mighty poof of a fireball...
Commercial television's Armageddon, previously announced for last week, has been postponed until further notice. After threatening for months to produce a list naming the sponsors most responsible for supporting sex, profanity and violence on TV, the Mississippi-based Coalition for Better Television abruptly announced that its proposed consumer boycott of the offending advertisers was off-for the moment. Appearing at a Washington press conference with Anti-Feminist Phyllis Schlafly and Moral Majority guru, the Rev. Jerry Falwell, CBTV head, the Rev. Donald Wildmon, explained that productive discussions with executives of the companies in question had made a boycott...
...their reach, they muse and wonder what the thing might actually accomplish. These bombs have lain shelved for quite a while now, and a test is only a test, after all. Nor is such madness confined to the certifiable. Even the meekest citizen knows moments wherein he dreams of Armageddon. Whence otherwise could come such colliding terms as "population explosion" and "baby boom" but the amazing bicameral mind? It is a two-pole world, all right. It spins between those who refuse to see the bomb and those who can almost taste it. When suddenly a noise erupts in Baghdad...