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"Stupid is as stupid derp": Is the Human species too dumb to survive?
Anomie: Anarchy in the 21st Century
English - February 21, 2021 15:46 - 52 minutes - 48.6 MBPolitics News Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this week's episode we discuss the simple but rather alarming idea that humans (or many of them) are too stupid a species to prevent their own extinction by human induced climate change. While on the surface this seems a facetious question it actually involves a deep discussion of what "stupidity" is and whether we as a species can escape the genetic or societal inheritance that blinds us to the existential threat of global warming.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190709-has-humanity-reached-peak-intelligence
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-may-become-of-homo-sapiens/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/13/top-scientists-warn-of-ghastly-future-of-mass-extinction-and-climate-disruption-aoe
https://theconversation.com/from-human-extinction-to-super-intelligence-two-futurists-explain-26617
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/nation-now/2016/06/28/stephen-hawking-humankind-still-greedy-stupid-greatest-threat-earth/86459578/
https://intpolicydigest.org/humans-are-fundamentally-stupid-creatures/
https://youtu.be/y50i1bI2uN4