A few weeks ago, the movie "Don't Look up" came on Netflix. Personally, I found it inappropriate and very exaggerated. It could also be that this was the goal of the film. Many of my thoughts revolve around the evolution of our culture, society and how it will evolve in the future. Those of us fortunate enough to live in the developed world worry excessively about the small dangers of daily life: unlikely plane crashes, carcinogens in food, and so on. However, we are less truly safe on this planet than we think. We should be much more concerned about scenarios that fortunately have not yet occurred, but which, if they did, could wreak such widespread havoc that just one would be too many.
We are denying catastrophic risks
We are denying catastrophic risks
We are denying catastrophic risks
A few weeks ago, the movie "Don't Look up" came on Netflix. Personally, I found it inappropriate and very exaggerated. It could also be that this was the goal of the film. Many of my thoughts revolve around the evolution of our culture, society and how it will evolve in the future. Those of us fortunate enough to live in the developed world worry excessively about the small dangers of daily life: unlikely plane crashes, carcinogens in food, and so on. However, we are less truly safe on this planet than we think. We should be much more concerned about scenarios that fortunately have not yet occurred, but which, if they did, could wreak such widespread havoc that just one would be too many.