This 50th anniversary of Earth Day finds the planet facing existential threats like never before in human history. On this historic anniversary, the Abolition 2000 Global Network to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons has issued a Statement Addressing the Threats to Planetary Survival.
The threat from climate change is manifesting itself more and more strongly as the years go by through extreme weather events, forest fires on a vast scale, the bleaching of coral reefs, and receding glaciers, among others. This year also sees the world facing a pandemic which, as we speak, is costing thousands of lives every day and seems likely to have an impact on our civilization for years, if not decades to come.
Alongside these threats to human existence, however, is the lesser-considered, but more dangerous threat from nuclear technology that has the possibility to inflict a more devastating blow to the planet in 10 days than climate change will have in 100 years.
