The End is Always Near, Dan Carlin (3.0)
I am a fan of Dan Carlin’s podcasts and always appreciate his common-sense point of view. Here he reviews various stages in history to show how humans continually come close to the abyss, though as yet have not obliterated ourselves (yeah!?). I found the first half less interesting, maybe due to the known history and my ‘well, we made it through that one’ attitude. The second half, particularly as he discusses the atomic era, was appropriately scary and thought provoking. I had not realized the extent many in the government were pushing the use of the atomic bombs on the USSR (prior to them having the technology) to prevent the anticipated cold war. Carlin’s timing for this book is slightly off (published Oct 2019) as he talks about a possible global pandemic right before the actual pandemic. I read the paperback and would have appreciated an additional note putting that in perspective.
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