Fri 6 Mar 2020 06.00 GMT

Threats to humanity, and how we address them, define our time. Why are we still so complacent about facing up to existential risk?

The world is in the early stages of what may be the most deadly pandemic of the past 100 years. In China, thousands of people have already died; large outbreaks have begun in South Korea, Iran and Italy; and the rest of the world is bracing for impact. We do not yet know whether the final toll will be measured in thousands or hundreds of thousands. For all our advances in medicine, humanity remains much more vulnerable to pandemics than we would like to believe. Continue leyendo →