i'm terrified right now. There needs to be some kind of story telling that happens to get us back. I can, i can tell you this, that my profession, or science in general, does not reward story tellers. And anne and bran are very disappointed to learn that there's still this resistance to that cause. Do you think this nuclear winter scenario hastened t the end of the cold war? Do you think it played a role? Well, i'm not sure it's over ithat ea, i mean, ithink it may have hasten You know, a kind of a little bit of a change. But of course, there were so many other
Are advanced civilizations doomed to destroy themselves? Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice explore the Cold War, The Drake Equation, and nuclear winter hypothesis with producer of Cosmos and Carl Sagan’s widow Ann Druyan and atmospheric scientist Brian Toon.
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