You're giving him a lot of credit turning a vague angry anti-tech tirade in to that. However, I tend to agree and say that it would be hopeless to try consider

You're giving him a lot of credit turning a vague angry anti-tech tirade in to that. However, I tend to agree and say that it would be hopeless to try consider something with a bazillion influential moving parts and as volatile like human civilization something we could try to "make safe" before working on better space access, which itself might well increase our robustness.