![]() ![]() Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb satirized American nuclear fears of the previous years-and earned an armful of awards-while the bestselling 1962 novel Fail-Safe capitalized on the fear of nuclear extinction that had been building for the past decade. government promoted building home fallout shelters television programs profiled luxurious homes with deluxe nuclear survival capabilities. ![]() Over the following decades, fear of the bomb was ever present, creating a widespread and persistent apocalyptic obsession in American society-perhaps the closest cultural analogy to what we’re seeing now with the climate crisis.Ĭitizens routinely participated in “duck and cover” drills and were told to stay away from the windows in the event of a nuclear attack. “Freedom is pitted against slavery lightness against the dark.”Įisenhower was taking power just a few years after the country was thrust headfirst into the Cold War. “Forces of good and evil are massed and armed and opposed as rarely before in history,” he said. Eisenhower delivered his inauguration speech. How is desire affected when the world as we know it seems to be ending in front of our eyes? But a thornier question, perhaps, is to ask how intimacy is changing in the face of impending doom. There also exists a body of writing on the logistics of climate change and sex: It’s getting hotter, so sex might become a more uncomfortable, sweatier affair. ![]() ![]() There is alarming evidence that climate change both directly and indirectly impacts our sexual health, including due to increased gender-based violence or disruptions in sexual or reproductive services because of extreme weather. ![]()
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