The Threats to Earth's Future

I'm afraid we are at the moment in that kind of information space and it's always a really interesting question not just in relation to space but other things too. What does and doesn't cut through you know it almost goes back to where we started what's the thing that allows us to say right we have now transcended our petty concerns Chris I tend to agree with you that I don't think the thing that you describe would be that unfortunately it would exacerbate some of our patiness my question is what is the hierarchy of risk yeah well I think when you put it like that you've almost described three different types of risk which we as a species are good or bad at dealing with.