“Lord Martin Rees, for example, estimates that civilisation has a 50/50 chance of making it to 2100. Noam Chomsky argues that the risk of annihilation is currently ‘unprecedented in the history of Homo sapiens’. And Max Tegmark contends that ‘it’s probably going to be within our lifetimes … that we’re either going to self-destruct or get our act together.’”
Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo | Aeon Essays
https://aeon.co/essays/why-longtermism-is-the-worlds-most-dangerous-secular-credo
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