Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 30, 1982
Transcript:
Mike: I don't see how you can sit through these things. Zonker: Call me a graduation buff. Also, I want to be ready, Mike. It might happen to me one day. Man: Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '82. I leave you with this final thought....you enter a world fraught with peril. A world that seems to be careening recklessly towards self-destruction. Only if your generation gets involved do we have any real hope for survival. Never forget that a nuclear war would be makind's final act. Never again would this planet be habitable; the destruction would be total and final! Even in a so-called "limited" war, life as you know it would no longer exist. Survivors would be left in a poisoned wasteland, with only a handful of towns. Few farms, fewer factories, and virtually no hospitals! Think about it. Is this the kind of world you... Student: How many law schools?