Better for Us if You Leave Now (opens in new tab)

Humans are the only species that can both cause and contemplate their own extinction. Our enormous technological and philosophical abilities put us in a unique existential situation – one that informs discussions about whether we are wise enough to keep ourselves in existence. Many of the arrangements of human life are, as everyone knows, self-destructive – and, even if we were better at managing our collective existence, there’s always the risk of natural catastrophes – extinction-level even...