“Humankind has much to celebrate. Our intellect has taken us to the moon, deciphered the code that defines us and created sublime works of art and music. But our intellect has also delivered us the means of our own destruction.

In the last few hundred years we have not only invented the means of exploiting fossil fuels, but we have also developed the economic and political systems that drive such technologies. We have failed to recognize the existential risks. So, why might that be?”