{"id":5067,"date":"2017-04-25T18:45:15","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T23:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/?p=5067"},"modified":"2017-05-25T00:01:52","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T05:01:52","slug":"nuclear-winter-null-point-climate-change-by-francis-baumli-ph-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/nuclear-winter-null-point-climate-change-by-francis-baumli-ph-d\/","title":{"rendered":"NUCLEAR WINTER: NULL-POINT CLIMATE CHANGE by Francis Baumli, Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Many people have pointed out that President Donald<\/div>\n
Trump is afflicted with serious mental disorders,<\/div>\n
ranging from what psychiatrists call Narcissistic<\/div>\n
Personality Disorder to Antisocial Personality<\/div>\n
Disorder. Within the miasma of his sociopathy, he is<\/div>\n
brutishly macho, an imperious bully, and (perhaps most<\/div>\n
dangerous) chronically impulsive.<\/div>\n
With Donald Trump brandishing this spectrum of<\/div>\n
mental illnesses, we could well imagine (even predict)<\/div>\n
any of the following scenarios:<\/div>\n
At a public speech before cheering supporters, he<\/div>\n
might say something like, \u201cEvery wife deserves at least<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\u00a0one good beating a week.\u201d Not until days later, after<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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much damage has been done, i.e., many women abused,<\/div>\n
does he get around to retracting his words, i.e.,<\/div>\n
pretending that what he said was a joke. Or, at a<\/div>\n
public speech before the NRA he might say, \u201cAnyone who<\/div>\n
shoots a Muslim gets a Presidential pardon!\u201d A week<\/div>\n
later, when he finally recants his \u201clittle joke,\u201d the<\/div>\n
consequences have proved not little but lethal. Or,<\/div>\n
what is worse, with all the alacrity of a carefree<\/div>\n
schoolboy, Trump might lob a nuclear missile into North<\/div>\n
Korea, reasoning that their fixation with becoming a<\/div>\n
nuclear power makes them everyone\u2019s enemy, and even Red<\/div>\n
China has no affection for that tiny, isolated country.<\/div>\n
So here would be an opportunity for making North Korea<\/div>\n
stop acting uppity toward the nations they believe are<\/div>\n
their enemies.<\/div>\n
After that missile gets launched into North Korea,<\/div>\n
all of Red China, even if exercising forbearance about<\/div>\n
a nuclear retaliation, would then be on high alert. But<\/div>\n
then a few days later, even though last week he was<\/div>\n
chums with Putin, one morning Putin says something that<\/div>\n
arouses Trump\u2019s reflexive ire, and in a temper he<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
\u00a0thinks that he should give Putin a warning by throwing<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cjust one\u201d nuclear missile into the northern Ukraine,<\/div>\n
unaware that the response would inevitably be more than<\/div>\n
\u201cjust one.\u201d Thus he brings us to the brink, and within<\/div>\n
seconds to the actuality, of nuclear war. Those who do<\/div>\n
not perish in the fiery exchange would then die an<\/div>\n
agonizing death\u2014either within a month by nuclear<\/div>\n
poisoning, or within a year during the subsequent<\/div>\n
\u201cnuclear winter.\u201d<\/div>\n
These concerns about possible perils are neither<\/div>\n
idle speculation nor self-indulgent drama. Virtually<\/div>\n
anyone, whether they be anti-Trump or pro-Trump, can<\/div>\n
not but agree that any of the above scenarios are<\/div>\n
possible should circumstance, arrogance, and impulse<\/div>\n
all coalesce at the same moment. Some people may be<\/div>\n
less worried about these scenarios than others are.<\/div>\n
Many Trump supporters may manage to not worry about<\/div>\n
them at all. But there is a rare person who, giving<\/div>\n
this matter but one minute\u2019s thought, would not<\/div>\n
consider all of these scenarios entirely within the<\/div>\n
realm of what is disturbingly possible. In other words,<\/div>\n
these scenarios are not vague fantasies, they are reluctant<\/div>\n
and fearful concerns\u2014almost amounting to<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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predictions\u2014about the possible terminal consequences of<\/div>\n
Donald Trump\u2019s mental and moral illness.I have long thought<\/div>\n
that I would go to my grave believing that George W. Bush was<\/div>\n
the worst President in American history. That belief now seems almost like<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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a self-indulgent luxury. What I am now beginning to<\/div>\n
believe is that with Donald Trump as our President, we<\/div>\n
may soon witness the terminus of American history. Or,to put it<\/div>\n
more accurately, there will be no human beings left<\/div>\n
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to witness the terminus of American history<\/div>\n
… or the terminus of human history.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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