In "Unlivable Earth," Georges Bataille discusses how over time humans has slowly in a sense lost their sense of humanity. Although we have advanced in the sphere of science and technology, as a result we have lost sight of what occurred and the atrocities that happened to get to this point of time. In the essay he states, “We might have a sublime idea of the animal now that we have ceased being certain that one day the nuclear bomb will not make the planet an unlivable place for man” (178). Thus Bataille suggests the possibility of the end of history with an anthropogenic ecological apocalypse. It's interesting to me that Bataille was so troubled by a nuclear threat at that time since this fear isn’t something that has diminished but has actually
