Climate change is the biggest thread to life on our planet. How accurate is this statement? Are there any other big threats to mankind?

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It is claimed that global warming is the chief
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to human civilization.
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essay does not agree with
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statement because people can find technological solutions to
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problem whereas
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problem, whereas
the
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from nuclear weapons cannot be so easily solved and
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poses a
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dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises
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. Some would argue that the increase of the planet’s average temperature will lead to catastrophe on a global scale,
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, the technology already exists to stem
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threat
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. Solar power, combined with the use of electric vehicles, will remove the need for fossil-
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heated, driven, or produced by burning fuel
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power stations and transportation. The result will be a massive reduction in the release of greenhouse gases into the earth’s atmosphere; the principal cause of global warming.
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, Tesla Motors
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excellent cars that produce zero CO2 and its sister company, Solar City,
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roof tiles and Power Wall battery packs. A much larger danger is that of
thermo-nuclear
using nuclear weapons based on fusion as distinguished from fission
thermonuclear
war. It would only take one blunder or the
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an escape from jail
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of a major war between nuclear states to wipe out every living thing on earth.
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would be caused by the explosions themselves and the ensuing nuclear
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winter, which
would wipe out all plant life and poison the air and oceans.
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, the United States of America alone has enough nuclear warheads to wipe out every man, woman and child on earth with its arsenal and the Cuban Missile Crisis in the 1960s demonstrated how close it is possible to come to global nuclear war. In conclusion, climate change is not the gravest peril the earth faces because we have the technological capability to solve it and the
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nuclear arms is much greater.

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