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The Anti-Apocalyptus Newsletter

The risks that can destroy or significantly hurt humanity, and how to solve them.

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Issue 33: which great powers can destroy us?

Vaccine shortfall, great power extinction, mRNA scientists, Neuralink and killer asteroids

Issue 32: from COVID-timidity to Californian air wars

Catch-22, geo-engineering, mRNA revolution, smarter computers and air war California

Issue 31: from Suez geopolitics to a COVID-19 lab leak

Suez, the black death, breakthrough tech, lab leaks and pollution mortality

Issue 30: from intelligent dolphins to a new world order

Dolphins & x-risk, comets, exporting AstraZeneca, the precautionary principle and planetary governance

Issue 29: from bioweapons to face-masks

The end of WMD's, face-mask invention, the missile trap, and AI Index & the Green New Deal

Issue 28: China makes plans

Chinese carbon neutrality, the East's rise, Biden's demo-tech, vaccine patents and malaria vaccines

Issue 27: from doomsday ships to hellhole Mars

Killer robots, pandemic mistakes, Mars colonisation, tiny cars and atomic insanity

Issue 26: from the South-China Sea to the ozone hole

World war 3, doomsday, ozone hole, 100 billion ICBM's and mental models

Issue 25: the rationalist row

Industrial policy, WHO report, ICBM's, carbon capture and our vulnerable world

Issue 24: from Southern vaccines to Chinese tech ascendancy

Renewable geopolitics, COVAX, new COVID-variants, China's technology and geothermal

Issue 23: from Europe's vaccine politics to Biden's blitz

UK's vaccine success, EU's vaccine failure, sublime Utopias, climate blitz and Biden's China course

Issue 22: from 2-degree terraforming to Chinese bullet trains

Climate alarmism, New START, the dollar empire, worldview diversification and bullet trains

Issue 21: new year, new rules

Biden versus China, nuclear Biden, superforecasting a pandemic, 60 harvests & a hot 2020

Interview Clarissa Rios Rojas: "global risks need to become dinner table discussions"

How to bring politics and science closer, and to prepare for the next global risk.

Issue 20 - intermezzo

Batteries, Chinese nuclear, vaccine approval, patents and Chinese charts

Issue 19: does tech solutionism work?

Cultured meat, New START, protein folding, COVID-leaks and tech alliance

Issue 18: from Lithium Valley to the Indo-Pacific

Lithium politics, nuclear assassination, AI replication, muddled vaccine and Indo-Pacific arena

Issue 17: from dying seas to Nagorno-Karabakh

Dying seas, nuclear ban, world-in-chains, vaccines and Nagorno-Karabakh

Issue 16: Biden won, X-risk remains

Geo-engineering, nuclear history, synthetic biology, societal collapse and new Trumpism

Issue 15: the US election & X-risk

Political unrest, climate policy, Iran deals and China confrontation