Word: destructionism
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Everyone sensible wants to build a better world, and everyone acknowledges that a keystone of its construction is ensuring that states like Iraq do not possess weapons of mass destruction. But the debate at the Security Council last week demonstrated a gulf in conceptions of how that world might best...
Distance once helped dampen the effects of human wickedness, and weapons once had limited range. But evil has burst into a new dimension. The globalization, democratization and miniaturization of the instruments of destruction (nuclear weapons or their diabolical chemical-biological stepbrothers) mean a quantum leap in the delivery systems of...
Bush must apply his doctrine of preemption to the potential crisis of global warming, and hopefully other environmental problems. Just as we can never be sure whether Saddam will really use his weapons of mass destruction against America or our allies, we cannot know the ultimate consequences of global warming...
Dramatic as it was, the exchange didn?t cloud the generally upbeat view of the future voiced by most of the speakers. None of the sessions showed this positive mood more clearly than the one on the loss of species, which ecologist Thomas Lovejoy estimated was occurring at an alarming...
The British writer Matt Ridley, author of ?Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters,? offered an even more cheerful perspective. Arguing that the early fears about tinkering with genes had proved to be groundless, he went on to dismiss the current concerns of many of his fellow Europeans...