Climate Change

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In 19 98 when the bruce willis film, armegeden and steven speelberg, movi deep impact come out, immediately there is a response. A nassau sets up its planetary defense coordination office. In some sense, politicss has tackled that one. Our response to asteroids isn't perfect, but we've responded pretty in in a pretty pretty bi partisan way in most countries around the world. And yet, climate changes is the opposite here, people deeply, deeply divided,. There hasn't been the same sort of unified response, at least in the united states and australia, that we've seen to to asteroid risk. I mean, you're really

We’re pretty well-calibrated when it comes to dealing with common, everyday-level setbacks. But our brains aren’t naturally equipped for dealing with unlikely but world-catastrophic disasters. Yet such threats are real, both natural and human-induced. We need to collectively get better at anticipating and preparing for them, at the level of political action. Andrew Leigh is an academic and author who now serves in the Parliament of Australia. We discuss how to move the conversation about existential risks from the ivory tower to implementation in real policies.

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Andrew Leigh received his Ph.D. in Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He is a member of the Australian House of Representatives representing Fenner. He was previously a professor of economics at Australian National University, and has served as Shadow Assistant Minister for Treasury and Charities. His recent book is What’s the Worst That Could Happen? Existential Risk and Extreme Politics.

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