The Importance of Preserving Humanity's Long Term Potential

I'm actually curious how much you think it matters whether people agree with you about the enormous value of preserving humanity's long term potential. Like for someone who just cares about preventing massive amounts of death and suffering, would the policy prescription be so different? Feel like a lot of the risks that you talk about in your book are things that that it would make sense to care about and devote more funding to.