The threat of nuclear war, in the heavens, some interpreted as a the sign of the end of the world, and in practical terms, supported this policy politically, out of this religious view that the world's destruction would be the best thing that could happen. Anything that would humanly hasten the apocalypse deserved public support. Upon the earth, there shall be distress along the nations . Think on the difficulties facing every human institution today. All political systems are under stress, their institutions and their methods trying to serve the rapidly changing needs of the world.
All economic systems are under great strain and scrutiny.
The old ideas and doctrines are barely able to sustain societies where every person can have enough to live acceptably, and the next generation can find satisfactory employment. The signs are also present in the sea and the waves . Signs embodied in terms like Walkerton, E. coli, global warming, deforestation, oil slicks, emission controls, fossil fuels, Kirkland Lake and the garbage train, nuclear waste. Consider how challenged, we are ecologically. If we poison our water, our air, our land, we would die.