Noam Chomksy: ‘We’re approaching essentially the most harmful level in human historical past’

Renowned writer, linguist and thinker Noam Chomsky in a current interview warned that the world is “approaching the most dangerous point in human history” whereas talking concerning the local weather disaster and the specter of a nuclear warfare.

Presenting a grim actuality of the state of affairs, the 93-year-old professor in an interview with the British journal New Statesman stated, “We are now facing the prospect of the destruction of organised human life on Earth from environmental destruction. And not in the remote future… we are approaching irreversible turning points which cannot be dealt with any longer. It doesn’t mean everyone is going to die but it does mean moving to a future in which the lucky ones will be those who die quickly.”

Chomsky termed the continuing warfare in Ukraine as “monstrous”. Condemning Russian President Vladimir Putin’s actions in Ukraine, he stated, “Why did he do it? There are two ways of looking at this question. One way, the fashionable way in the West, is to plumb the recesses of Putin’s twisted mind and try to determine what’s happening in his deep psyche.”

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The different method, he stated, was to have a look at the actions of the United States. “…in September 2021, the US came out with a strong policy statement, calling for enhanced military cooperation with Ukraine, further sending of advanced military weapons, all part of the enhancement programme of Ukraine joining Nato. You can take your choice, we don’t know which is right.”

He added that with Ukraine’s ‘devastation’, “we may move on to terminal nuclear war if we do not pursue the opportunities that exist for a negotiated settlement.”

Chomsky asserted that it was proper to “have a moral outrage against Putin”, but additionally known as for outrage in opposition to different “horrible atrocities” that the US was behind. Speaking concerning the individuals ravenous in Afghanistan, Chomsky held the US answerable for the state of affairs, saying that it has “kept Afghanistan’s funds in New York banks and will not release them.”

Painting a bleak image of former US president Donald Trump’s potential return, the US professor stated, “I can remember listening to Hitler’s speeches on the radio. I didn’t understand the words, I was six years old. But I understood the mood. And it was frightening and terrifying. And when you watch one of Trump’s rallies that can’t fail to come to mind. That’s what we’re facing.”

He additionally critiqued the Republican Party’s disregard for local weather change as a “death warrant to the species.”

However, Chomsky maintained there was nonetheless hope for the longer term, with these of the youthful era “dedicated to trying to stop this madness before it consumes us all.”