Ramesvara: …that if there is a war between Russia and America, there would be a nuclear war, and they would pollute the whole atmosphere with radioactive particles, which would kill everyone.

Prabhupada: It is already polluted.

Ramesvara: They say that this radioactive fallout…

Prabhupada: The whole material world is polluted. Who will live here? [laughter] A little, say, twenty years before, dying. After all, you have to die, twenty years after or twenty years before. So it is already polluted. That is humbugism. They will die at the end, but still they are trying to live.

Tamala Krsna: Like they’re creating their own…

Prabhupada: This is the difference between man of knowledge and without knowledge. A man of knowledge will think, “After all, I have to die. So what is the difficulty, dying a few days more or before?” That is knowledge. And those who are not in knowledge, they are afraid of death. Best business is, before the death comes let us finish our Krsna consciousness perfectly. That is wanted. Death will come. You cannot avoid it.

(April 4, 1975, Mayapur)