"How rational is it to risk the future of humankind on the assumption that future scientists will make some unknown planetary discoveries? Most of the presidents, ministers, and CEOs who run the world are very rational people. Why are they willing to take such a gamble? Maybe because they don't think they are gambling on their own personal future. Even if bad comes to worse and science cannot hold off the deluge, engineers could still build a high tech Noah's Ark for the upper caste, while leaving billions of others to drown. The belief in this high-tech Ark is currently one of the biggest threats to the future of humankind and of the entire ecosystem. People who believe in the hi-tech Ark should not be put in charge of the global ecology, for the same reason that people who believe in a heavenly afterlife should not be given nuclear weapons."
Homo Deus
A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari
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