Prominent American scientist and political activist Noam Chomsky has warned that Donald Trump’s presidency would put humanity in deep trouble for five reasons, ranging from human rights to the environment.
“Trump says all sorts of things,” Chomsky said in an interview this week with the AlterNet news service.
“Some of them make sense; some of them are crazy. But the US is an extremely powerful state [and] if Trump means what he’s saying, the human species is in very deep trouble.”
Having attributed Trump’s rise to American people’s “perceptions of loss and fear” in his previous interviews, the renowned academic this time focused on the consequences of the real estate magnate’s presidency.
Looming World War
Chomsky noted that the US is viewed as the “the greatest threat to world peace by a large margin,” citing American-run polls.
“Right now the spectacle of the Republican primary is frightening people around the world,…