The Dangerous Ideas of “Longtermism” and “Existential Risk”

Despite being disproportionately responsible for the climate catastrophe, the super-rich will be the least affected by it........Astoundingly, Reid Hoffman, the multi-billionaire who cofounded LinkedIn, reports that “more than 50 percent of Silicon Valley’s billionaires have bought some level of ‘apocalypse insurance,’ such as an underground bunker. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/07/the-dangerous-ideas-of-longtermism-and-existential-risk

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