Noam Chomsky: GOP election victory amounts to ‘death knell for the human species’

Professor Noam Chomsky has suggested that the election of a GOP Congress amounts to a “death knell for the [human] species.” Chomsky, in an interview posted on The Nation's website, lamented the Republican takeover of the House of Representatives and gains in the U.S. Senate may spell doom for the human race.

“The latest election, a couple of days ago, you could almost interpret it as a kind of death knell for the species,” Chomsky, an emeritus professor of linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said in the video published on The Nation's website on January 5, 2011. (Chomsky's remarks appear at about 12:50 into the video. Chomsky's comments were picked up by the website Haunting the Library. See full report here.) Chomsky goes on to explain that the election of Republicans who reject man-made global warming claims posed “a danger to the survival of the species.” “We're essentially saying, 'Let's kiss each other goodbye,'” he added. Chomsky's beliefs about human extinction are similar to the views of Microbiologist Frank Fenner. See: Humans could go extinct within 100 years, says renowned scientist -- Fenner believes it's already too late to save the human species from overpopulation and climate change Continued...

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