Walmart or Amazon now a nuclear power is a terrible thought.
Given that the US government exists to make megacorps like that as powerful as possible, they already effectively are, they’re just saved the inconvenience/expense of directly maintaining their own military and nuclear stockpile.
My bigger concern tbh is a post-balkanization Texas or Utah. Evangelicals and Mormons are a whole lot more likely to let the nukes fly to bring about the end times imo.
Happened to the USSR and we’re still around, but even Yeltsin was more rational than the christofascists running the US so who knows?
I think it’s 50/50 between not caring about anyone other than themselves and thinking that it’ll magically solve itself. The latter is usually some fancy tech invention that solves climate change without needing to change society more broadly.
If you weren’t fairly online and/or in fringe left-wing or right-wing spaces, you probably wouldn’t have heard about him because he wasn’t really that important. Most of my coworkers (and this is in the US) had never heard of him before his neck just did that.
I agree, in order to remain morally consistent we should remove all the most energy-intensive humans as well. Oh look, it’s the billionaires. Well, you guys had a good run, time to get in the pit