We’re soon bringing this series on existential threats we face to a close. It certainly conceivable - likely, even - that we have not covered every single existential threat we face, but we’ve done justice to the bulk of them as we see it.
As ever, the purpose of this series is not to demoralize you, dear subscriber, but to provide a comprehensive accounting of the manner by which we must walk and chew gum at the same time from here on out. We don’t have the option of allowing even one of these items to languish, else we court catastrophe.
It is out desire that you share these far and wide - on social media, in responses, with friends, family and your representatives - so this knowledge becomes socially actionable. The more people who know the more likely we can do something about it before it’s too late.
The thread can be found on X here.
Today’s episode, bioterrorism, is such a unique and growing threat it get it’s own release. Between the serial attacked lodged against the United States by China - in Covid-19 (and suspected serial releases of modified versions), in agricultural agents designed to destroy the harvest of our heartland, to the burgeoning field of ethnic-specific biowarfare - to the increased availability of gene editing to non-state actors, biowarfare of sci-fi horror is here. We need to put a lid on it by becoming serious people, in the vein of the doctrine of mutually assured destruction, to bring our defenses into the 21st century.
