ABSTRACT
A human survival or human preservation movement would aim to counter threats to human survival and put human existence on a safe, sustainable basis. Addressing the apparently disparate issues of nuclear proliferation, climate catastrophe, unknown unknowns, and other threats as part of the broader problem of ensuring human survival could provide a new basis for collective action to make the changes necessary to end such threats. Human preservation movement may seem like an extravagant, implausible, even ridiculous idea. But we have already witnessed at least two powerful global movements addressing two of the great threats to human survival in the era of mutual destruction. Both the anti-nuclear and the climate-protection movements defined global threats and mobilized millions of people worldwide to combat the policies and institutions that perpetrated them. The anti-nuclear movement was not a single, monolithic global structure but rather a fluid, ever-changing convergence of organizations and actions.
