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Terrorist Attacks vs Cultural Suicide: Which Most Threatens Human Survival

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dc.contributor.authorCairns, John Jr.en
dc.contributor.departmentBiological Sciencesen
dc.date.accessioned2014-01-23T02:36:25Zen
dc.date.available2014-01-23T02:36:25Zen
dc.date.issued2008en
dc.description.abstractOn September 11, 2001, terrorists commandeered four commercial airliners and crashed two into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City; the third crashed into the Pentagon near Washington, DC; and, in the fourth, some airline passengers resisted the terrorists and the plane crashed in a rural area of Pennsylvania. Since then, the United States has had an almost obsessional fear of terrorists. Former New York City Major Rudy Guliani even used the events of September 11 as a centerpiece in his failed political campaign for the US presidency. Terrorist acts do kill many people and are given much attention in the US news media. However, global climate change and other factors, such as exponential human population growth, have the potential to cause millions, even billions, of deaths _ many more than the hundreds and thousands being killed by terrorists. This paper attempts to put the cultural risks in perspective and to propose that inadequate social evolution has placed humankind in a more precarious situation than any terrorist attack could possibly do. What humans are doing to themselves is far more threatening than anything that terrorists have accomplished so far.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/25001en
dc.identifier.urlhttp://www.johncairns.net/Papers/Terrorist_Attacks_vs_Cultural_Suicide.pdfen
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherAsian Journal of Experimental Sciencesen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectterrorismen
dc.subjectcultural suicide| global heatingen
dc.subjectoverpopulationen
dc.subjectcultural evolutionen
dc.subjecthunter/gatherer societyen
dc.titleTerrorist Attacks vs Cultural Suicide: Which Most Threatens Human Survivalen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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