THE GLOBAL SURVIVAL FALLACY
THE GLOBAL SURVIVAL FALLACY By İbrahim Selvi – Opinion Column For decades, nations have poured their resources, intelligence, and political will into an unquestioned assumption: that survival is achieved through military strength, deterrence, and geopolitical dominance. Armies grow. Budgets swell. Defensive alliances expand. And yet, amid this global obsession with security, the greatest threat to human survival approaches silently, predictably, and scientifically: the collapse of Earth’s ecological balance. This is the global survival fallacy— the belief that nations can outgun, outspend, or outmaneuver a planetary system that is losing its stability. --- A World Preparing for the Wrong War The 21st century will not be defined by traditional warfare. It will be defined by habitable land, water availability, climate migration, crop failure, and ecosystem breakdown. Yet major powers behave as if tanks, jets, cyber armies, and missile shields can solve: the acidification of oceans, ...