The world is full of different power structures and philosophies. So, too, it is full of loving and caring people. What's the difference between Nazi Germany (just to start somewhere) and the many duplications of it such as Stalin's Russia, Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia... and, and, and...

Do you have any idea... does most of the world... about just how close the human race came to extinction... or, rather, all life on Earth could have come to an end. Thirteen days in 1962, life on the Earth was ready to end, for various reasons, at the decisions of two powerful men. And, unfortunately, humans have not learned from mistakes made then.

9 November 1965
The Command Center of the Office of Emergency Planning went on full alert after a massive power outage in the northeastern United States. Several nuclear bomb detectors—used to distinguish between regular power outages and power outages caused by a nuclear blast—near major U.S. cities malfunctioned due to circuit errors, creating the illusion of a nuclear attack.

23 May 1967
A powerful solar flare accompanied by a coronal mass ejection interfered with multiple NORAD radars over the Northern Hemisphere. This interference was initially interpreted as intentional jamming of the radars by the Soviets, thus an act of war. A nuclear bomber counter-strike was nearly launched by the U.S.

9 November 1979
A computer error at NORAD headquarters led to alarm and full preparation for a nonexistent large-scale Soviet attack. NORAD reported that the Soviet Union had launched 250 ballistic missiles (later updated to 2,200) with a trajectory for the United States, stating that a decision to retaliate would need to be made by the president within 3 to 7 minutes. NORAD computers then placed the number of incoming missiles at 2,200. It was found that a training scenario was inadvertently loaded into an operational computer. In the months following the incident there were 3 more false alarms at NORAD, 2 of them caused by faulty computer chips.

15 March 1980
One of four Soviet missiles launched from a submarine near the Kuril Islands was detected by an American early warning sensor and determined to be heading towards the United States.

26 September 1983
Several weeks after the downing of a Korean airliner over Soviet airspace, a satellite early-warning system near Moscow reported the launch of one American nuclear missile. Then it reported five missiles had been launched. Convinced that a real American offensive would involve many more missiles, one Russian Colonel convinced his superiors that it was a false alarm until this could be confirmed by ground radar. Two months later, parts of the Soviet government misinterpreted a NATO war simulation as a possible ruse of war to obscure preparations for a genuine nuclear first strike.

25 January 1995
Boris Yeltsin activated a nuclear response after Russian radar systems detected the launch of a Norwegian research rocket being used to study the Northern Lights. Russian submarines were put on alert in preparation for a possible retaliatory strike. Russia was in fact one of a number of countries earlier informed of the launch; however, the information had not reached the Russian radar operators.

Today, North Korea wants to join the fun. So, too, Iran thinks it would be nice to toss in some exciting activities. And, of course, Donald Duck thinks... well, nobody knows just what the hell he thinks. In fact, I don't think Donald, himself, knows.

And then there is global warming that, if we pretend really hard, we can convince ourselves that it doesn't exist. The flooding in Toronto in 2017 was just a fluke. So, too, is the 2019 flooding. In case you don't know, 2019 is today.

It's not the rising shorelines that are the big problem. It's (eventually) going to be the massive food shortages. The next 100 years are going to be very interesting.