A Livable Future is Possible

Confronting the Threats to Our Survival

Noam Chomsky, C.J. Polychroniou

• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9798888902622
• eBook ISBN:
  9798888902851
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: Politics & International Relations

A sweeping yet penetrating collection of interviews with Noam Chomsky, exploring the most pressing global concerns of our time.

In these illuminating interviews conductedby C.J. Polychroniou, Noam Chomsky yet again shares his brilliant insights on an array of struggles and challenges facing humanity. A Livable Future Is Possible addresses artificial intelligence and the potential for such programs to surpass humans in cognitive awareness; what lies ahead for a world engulfed in a deadly climate crisis; the rise of neo-fascism internationally, and why we should organize across borders to confront it; the striking similarities between Trump and Biden's foreign policies; and a number of other critical issues gripping the planet.

Noam Chomsky has been an incomparable model of moral clarity and intellectual courage during his many decades as a scholar and critic. He is the most cited living scholar. One would be hard-pressed to find a more influential voice than Chomsky's in the West. A Livable Future Is Possible is not only an urgent and informative resource, it is a call-to-action for those hoping to help carry the torch of one of history's greatest minds.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface
• Just Transition Can Stop Earth from Becoming Uninhabitable
• On the State of the World
• Artificial Intelligence: Myth, Reality, and Future
• Is a Livable Future Still Possible?
• A Stronger NATO Is the Last Thing We Need as Russia-Ukraine War Turns One
• Right-Wing Insurrection in Brazil Held Strong Echoes of January 6
• Another World Is Possible. Let’s Bring It to Reality.
• Advanced US Weaponry in Ukraine Is Sustaining Battlefield Stalemate
• “We’re on the Road to a Form of Neofascism”
• US Sanctions on Iran Don’t Support the Protests, They Deepen Suffering
• Options for Diplomacy Decline as Russia’s War on Ukraine Escalates
• Midterms Could Determine Whether US Joins Ominous Global Fascist Wave
• Pushing a Viable Climate Project around COP27
• Twenty Years after Iraq War Vote, US Continues to Flout International Law
• Brazil’s Runoff Election Will Have Enormous Effects on the Global Climate Crisis
• US Must Join Global Call for Negotiations as Russia Escalates Actions
• The US and Israel Are Standing in the Way of an Iran Nuclear Agreement
• The War in Ukraine Has Entered a New Phase
• Humanity’s Fate Isn’t Sealed—If We Act Now
• Maintaining Class Inequality at Any Cost Is GOP’s Guiding Mission
• Six Months into War, Diplomatic Settlement in Ukraine Is Still Possible
• Twenty-First-Century US Foreign Policy Is Shaped by Fears of China’s Rise
• US Government’s Nonresponse to Climate Crisis Has Historical Precedent
• Biden’s Middle East Trip Contains Echoes of Trump’s Policies
• Humanity Faces Two Existential Threats. One Is Nearly Ignored.
• The “Historic” NATO Summit in Madrid Shored Up US Militarism
• Index
• About the Authors
• Back Cover