
Can Humanity Grow Up?
Oct 30, 2020 explains why thinking globally is not enough to save us from the risks we have created for ourselves.
Toby Ord, a senior research fellow in philosophy at the University of Oxford, is the author of The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020).
Oct 30, 2020 explains why thinking globally is not enough to save us from the risks we have created for ourselves.
Nearly three months after Russia launched its invasion, Western countries appear more committed than ever to Ukraine’s defense, and, in some quarters, to Russia’s defeat. We asked PS commentators what outcome the West, Russia, and Ukrainians themselves can realistically expect.