Fusion Power

Your views are indeed intriguing, and I agree with parts of your sagacious regard. I understand the whole spectrum of human barbarism and our sporadic emotionality. There are individuals, societies, and even nations that would rather see the world burn than have humanity flourish. Allow me to use theoretical physicist Michio Kaku to aid my debate, he states that now in this day and time, we are at our most vulnerable, this is the right place and time in history that we have the capability to annihilate all of humanity. He also states that this era is an era of transitioning from a primitive civilization (level 0) to a more sophisticated society (level 1). We've seen and documented that transitioning makes mankind quite indeed restless. We destroy cities, commit genocide, have these great wars worldwide, but the question is will we use nuclear fusion to end mankind. Groups of physicist, scientist, mathematicians, all these great minds have coalesced to create projects such as the tokamak, the large hadron collider in Geneva, Switzerland , the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, one of which has just reported that it's gotten more energy out than what was put into the experiment. I know that's not fusion, but its a step forward. We will one day war with nuclear fusion technology that's inevitable, but will we destroy humanity, simply I have to say no. Humanity have produced and are producing more potent and deadly weaponry every single day, but yet we are still a thriving civilization. If we are to destroy ourselves utterly every single human being, I believe the threat is more terrifying than a handful of nuclear fusion warheads exploding, and that's the threat of biological weaponry. These threats will kill every single one of us, and that could be tomorrow or within 30 years from now, our lifetimes. To say fusion power, a truly amazing risk to take, is going to destroy all of us is quite trivial. Don't take my words as insult, I'm just pointing out the fact that fusion weaponry will not end humanity before we reach the stars and truly have human civilization thrive, those odds are scanty at most. You previously mentioned threats of radiation, A.I., and nanotech, I agree these are volatile threats but I believe that even these issues won't be potent enough to annihilate us. Organizations, mainly the United Nations consisting of 193 national states out of 196 in the world, where member states are allied and combined under international laws and pacts are powerful entities, powerful enough to hold the peace long enough to usher in the next stage of mankind. Humanity has found unity in a sense can we control one another, no, but can we sit down and show some sense of diplomacy yes, otherwise its the few against the many, that is now and began in 1945, a few world wars ensured this. To close, I'd like to restate humanity is truly a boorish creature, generally speaking of course, but we've managed quite well through good and bad to keep it together. Could we push the button tomorrow and kill 7 billion people and end our progression permanently, yes no doubt, but life on any level is uncertain. Saying utopian society in the previous round was an exaggeration, excuse me for that, because that's not who we are. We have to be flawed and broken to make a difference, not in ourselves but our future. Fusion power will not destroy us as a whole, it will set us apart a large bit more from our suicidal savagery, and yes it just might wipe out thousands maybe millions and billions, but not mankind. To end my turn I've placed my references below, feel free and thank you. Fusion's progression: http://www.nbcnews.com... Michio Kaku's Humanity destroying itself interview: http://bigthink.com... Michio Kaku's Fusion power in 20 years interview: http://bigthink.com...