314. Martin Rees — Can Science Save Us?
The Michael Shermer Show
Climate Change
In previous generations, it would take a state actor the size of a nation state to bring about the end. But now you're worried that terrorist organizations could just be rogue anybody. The International Tomogand as your agency could do a pretty good job at monitoring anything in that arena. When it comes to bio and cyber, then the equipment is readily available to everyone. And it's harder to monitor without surveillance. That's what worries me. In an old fashioned village, you can tolerate the idiot, but we can't when they have such a enormous range. So that's my biggest worry. Of course, COVID-19 was a wake up call, which told us that there could
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