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Why We’re Underestimating the Risks to Human Civilization
- metavrsl 8y agoFascists are in control of America? I wasn’t notified. Too politically biased to be worthwhile.
- trashymctrash 8y agoWhat if you removed that one sentence from the article and read it again. What would be your conclusion?
- netsharc 8y agoIt got a bit rambling and repetitive, but I agree with the thesis. Politicians seem to just think of their short term (job-)survival rather than the planet, although arguably they think "I need to win because if my opponents got in power it will be a disaster.". And I remember from this story https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/17/get-rich-quick-silicon-valley-startup-billionaire-techie https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/apr/17/get-rich-quick-... how the minds in Silicon Valley are just being paid VC money to write stupid apps e.g. "Uber for laundry". The text ends with "It's our generation's challenge.". Pfft. I'm quite apathetic about it, I feel like we're on the Titanic and it's fatally sinking, and there's nothing left to do but enjoy the last moments of our lives. (Apparently this makes me analogous to the Christians who can't wait for the rapture to arrive).