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Letters
Letters
In Security Issues • It’s Only Natural? • Outta Space • The Rules of Particularity • Anarchist Head-To-Head
In Security Issues
DEAR EDITOR: I had trouble getting to sleep after reading Mary Midgley’s riveting article, ‘What DoWe Mean By Security?’ (Issue 61). My sense of unease was increased still further by an account in the Financial Times (26-27 May) of the Chinese developing five submarines that will carry ballistic missiles. The report rings true, if only because four is an unlucky number in China: one never asks for a table for four in a restaurant. Five submarines probably means four, but I am sure that is quite enough.
Midgley concludes her paper with the stark warning that unless people and countries stop feuding and accumulating weapons, climate change “will shortly whack us all so hard” that we will have no other choice but to co-operate in a general defence against “global civilization collapsing into total anarchy.
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