“Is the world
heading towards
total annihilation?”

A deadly virus that held the whole world to ransom and continues to evade any known cure for well over two years has further fuelled such assumptions. Just as scientific advances have helped mankind scale unknown frontiers, they also have the potential to cause unforeseen and unimaginable damage and impairment to the world.
The race for supremacy has nations competing with each other in producing weapons of mass destruction. Besides nuclear weapons, most nations have the ability to wage chemical and biological warfare.
Global warming and climate change

continue to wreak untold misery. Unseasonal rains and floods in some areas and droughts in other regions. Hurricanes, tsunamis and earthquakes are also becoming more frequent.
At a time when the whole world is at risk from calamitous situations that could wipe out the entire human race, we have superpowers trying to impose their will on less powerful nations.
It is indeed ironic that while we spend billions of dollars on seeking life on other planets, we don’t bat an eyelid squandering millions of dollars killing off all life on this one.
In this era, where sitting atop piles of nuclear arms typifies most of the nations’ resolve to maintain peace in their respective territories, the catchphrase ‘Spread love, not war’ assumes greater significance.

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