Peter Frankopan on how humans have shaped the planet and how we’ll destroy ourselves
Ways to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy
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Are We as Important as We Think We Are?
S slaves from West Africa were sold as hardier stronger longer living well. As malaria establishes itself in the United States particularly in the 1680s and 1690s onwards suddenly the value of human life starts to change. We've reshaped the earth in our own image in the way which we thought we could exploit it. If you overextend yourself then you face real problems, he says. He believes that humans are not immune from extraterrestrial and a natural crisis but they do have the ability to destroy ourselves fundamentally.
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