"Experts who assess global peril saw a pandemic coming, but they have worse worries for humanity."
Many virologists and epidemiologists predicted that a
global epidemic was to break out. However, governments are much more preoccupied
with trade agreement's demand.
Even though international networks increase our
vulnerability to viral pandemics and cyberattacks, these will not bring the total
end to humanity. As for global heating and environmental depredation, these may
lead to a calamity of unprecedented scale. However, none of these represent an
existential risk to our civilization.
The biggest prompt threat which we persist in ignoring
is to be found in the progress in biotech and artificial intelligence. The abundance
of nuclear weapons and the idea of an engineered pathogen in biological
laboratories would lead to the extinguishing of the human race if we do not make
the correct decisions. We better slow the pace to build a more advanced moral
appreciation of our condition.
The Coronavirus pandemic might have indicated the end
of hyper globalization and reasserted the importance of the nation-state. Nonetheless,
we will have to arrive at international cooperation if we’re to avoid far
greater calamities in the future.
The End of the F***ing World is a British dark comedy-drama television program,
based on a graphic novel of the same name by Charles Forsman
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