What is this country's existential threat?
"Existential threat" being that which threatens
the existence of the United States.
On this page, we will post links to materials that support one thesis or another about what threatens the existence of the United States. In the meantime, you might want to take a look at pages from some earlier discussions including:
- U.S. Foreign Policy
- United States: Continued Superpower?
- Fear and our Societal Response
- Governance. Lack of Trust. Lack of Consensus.
- Edward Snowden and the NSA
Potential Existential Threats
From Ed K.
- Russia
- China
- Mexican Migrants, Ungoverned areas
- ISIL, terrorism
- Deadlocked Congress, Impotent Administration
- Too much national debt
- "America Gone Mad" by John LeCarre, 2003, posted on "Snopes.com," March 15, 2008
- "The five biggest threats to human existence" on "TheConversation.com," May 29, 2014
- Nuclear war
- Engineered pandemic
- Superintelligence
- Nanotechnology
- Unknown unknowns
- "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" (a/k/a "Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive" on "Wikipedia" (undated)
- Kelly, Walt, Pogo: We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us (1987)
- "A Study of History" on "Wikipedia.org" about Arnold Toynbee's 12-volume universal history book (published 1934-1961). Volumes IV, V & VI discuss the breakdown and disintegration of civilizations. (undated)
- Loss of common vision/mission ("Enter the Age of the Outsiders" by David Brooks in "The New York Times," Oct 20, 2015)
- Climate change ("Global Warming & Climate Change Myths" on "Skeptical Science")
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