Current Events Species Threats
Number 1:
Accidental or Otherwise Caused Nuclear
War Between the US and Russia
Number 3: Global Warming
Species Threat Number 2:
Strike from an asteroid or comet
3-06-11 - Clay's grandpa Rusty op ed in NYT from Planetary Defense Blogspot and an article on the New Yorker, Vermin of the Sky, featuring his concern over preparedness for NEOs, near earth objects.
12-05-08 - World must tackle Space Threat - a BBC science article which mentions The Association of Space Explorers (ASE) roles in encouraging the nations of the world to get it together and deal with this threat which can be averted using present technology (and some R&D to get it down) and costing a fraction of what we spend on random violence. Rusty Schweickart (see below is a founder of the ASE.
5/05/04 - The B612 Project and Foundation
3-16-07
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The Sky is Falling. Really, an editorial in today's New York Times by
Russell L. Schweickart (Apollo 9 Astronaut, founder of the B612
Foundation, and
Clay's
granddad). Nine bows (as they say in Zen) for your work on this Rusty.