September 11, 201412 yr http://billmoyers.com/2014/09/09/noam-chomsky-are-we-approaching-the-end-of-human-history/
September 11, 201412 yr Active Members Please pardon this small sliver of light amidst the gloom, but a UN scientific committee announced today that the Earth's ozone layer is beginning to mend, following our 1987 agreement to ban chlorofluorocarbons. There was a statistically significant 4% improvement between 2000 and 2013 and, by 2030, two million cases of skin cancer will be avoided. "It's a victory for diplomacy and for science and for the fact that we were able to work together," said Nobel Prize winning chemist Mario Molina. Naturally, I'm thrilled that CFC's aren't the problem they were a quarter-century ago, but won't pretend I don't miss some of the good spray we had back then.
September 11, 201412 yr Author Of course in the context of most of Chomsky's writing, the piece linked above is positively an S.J. Perelman bagatelle.
September 11, 201412 yr Active Members I'm reasonably sure Chomsky would attribute any unpleasant thing, real or imagined, to world capitalism.
September 11, 201412 yr Author I'm reasonably sure Chomsky would attribute any unpleasant thing, real or imagined, to world capitalism. ATTACK THE POST, NOT THE POSTER!
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