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Steven Pinker and David Runciman on Optimism, Enlightenment and Progress PART 1
Intelligence Squared
The Existential Risk of Climate Change
The climate question raises a category that you write about in Enlightenment Now. There are big risks with thinking in terms of existential risk, and you highlight some of them. Martin Reese has made an argument in his most recent book where he says we now live in a world which faces these enormous potentially existential challenges. And unlike in the past, they are man-made. They are human-made. And it depends on us. In many cases, we know what to do. We just don't do it.
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