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The Vulnerability of Man: Existential Risk & Climate

In this exclusive interview series, we talk to Jaan Tallinn (Co-Founder of Skype and Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk), Professor Sir John Beddington (Senior Advisor, Oxford Martin School &…

Dr. Vikas Shah MBE DL 6 Aug 2015 44 min read

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Humankind has become a force in the biosphere as powerful as many natural forces of change, stronger than some, and sometimes as mindless as any.

— Sir John Beddington

Chief Scientific Adviser to UK Government & Food Security Expert

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