But we've always had those things. Every generation has their..
(I don't want to say bogeyman as it's too dismissive, but I don't want to say pressing issue because they're really not all that pressing in the minds of the average person. Let's just go with "long-term hovering externality")
...to deal with. Society has always been remarkably fragile, and we've stepped really close to outright annihilation a few of times, seemingly saved not by the application of the best humanity has to offer, but by what appears to be happenstance.
What if someone else had been the Russian negotiator during the Cuban missile crisis?
What if a different general that time Russia's radar malfunctioned had thought we were really nuking them? Global annihilation was literally in the hands of this one person's decision!
Hell, what if the 1859 CME event were to happen again? We had some near misses a couple years ago.
There's a difference I think between ignoring a risk and not devoting 100% of our efforts and mindshare to dealing with it.
(I don't want to say bogeyman as it's too dismissive, but I don't want to say pressing issue because they're really not all that pressing in the minds of the average person. Let's just go with "long-term hovering externality")
...to deal with. Society has always been remarkably fragile, and we've stepped really close to outright annihilation a few of times, seemingly saved not by the application of the best humanity has to offer, but by what appears to be happenstance.
What if someone else had been the Russian negotiator during the Cuban missile crisis?
What if a different general that time Russia's radar malfunctioned had thought we were really nuking them? Global annihilation was literally in the hands of this one person's decision!
Hell, what if the 1859 CME event were to happen again? We had some near misses a couple years ago.
There's a difference I think between ignoring a risk and not devoting 100% of our efforts and mindshare to dealing with it.