The new age of violence
Think the world is becoming a lot more unsafe? You’re right.
When something endangers your support network it endangers you, and when your support network is under threat, there are two ways you and those around you can respond. You can coordinate your efforts, working together to present a united face to the danger, or you can turn on one another, magnifying the threat. Usually your odds are hell of a lot better if you work as a team. As a species, we’ve made incredible leaps by working together, dominating our world completely enough to entirely rewrite it and even reach beyond it. The accomplishments of civilization are all about manifesting synergies, coordinated team efforts light years beyond the capacity of any individual. Lamentably, as we face the greatest environmental crisis in all of human history, we are a species at war or on the brink of war in unprecedented ways.
War is the norm of human history. Times of peace made up only 8% of the last 3400 years. While scientists warn us of the unprecedented dangers of climate change, military intelligence experts are more specific about the way that those include unprecedented military threats. The US pentagon has clearly identified climate change as a global threat multiplier for years, telling us it not only magnifies various existing national security threats, but also excels at…
