The brilliant Noam Chomsky

This is such an excellent, if not particularly uplifting, interview.  May Professor Chomsky live to be 100.  At least.

"The current moment...is the most grim moment in human history.  We are now in a situation where this generation...is going to have to make a decision of cosmic significance which has never arisen before: Will organized human society survive?  And there are two enormous threats: the threat of environmental catastrophe...and the threat of nuclear war...These have to be dealt with quickly, otherwise there's nothing to talk about...Some months ago..one of the Trump bureaucracies, the National Transportation Administration came out with what I think is the most astonishing document in the entire history of the human species.  It got almost no attention.  It was a long 500-page environmental assessment...They concluded by the end of the century temperatures will have risen 7 degrees...about twice the level scientists have determined is feasible for organized human life...Their conclusion is we should have no more constraints on automotive emissions.  Their reasoning is very solid.  We're going off the cliff anyway, so why not have fun?"