As this essay is actually being written in a world where nuclear weapons are a thing, it becomes easy to cherry-pick the example of nuclear weapons. I can think of a number of things for which the catastrophist could have made a similar argument in the 19th century and just been wrong, like expecting everyone to get personal jetpacks, or to be able to routinely travel to Mars..
As this essay is actually being written in a world where nuclear weapons are a thing, it becomes easy to cherry-pick the example of nuclear weapons. I can think of a number of things for which the catastrophist could have made a similar argument in the 19th century and just been wrong, like expecting everyone to get personal jetpacks, or to be able to routinely travel to Mars..