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“For a guy whose nickname is "Dr Doom", Luke Kemp remains surprisingly
cheerful.
"I'm Australian and basically just a constant happy, happy dog," he says.
"We do often joke that the field self-selects for people who have a high
happiness baseline, just because you kind of have to in order to work in this
area."
That area is the study of past civilisational collapses and what they can tell
us about the future. Kemp is a research associate at the Centre for the Study
of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge and has just published a
book on the topic.
"Climate change is one of the drivers which most concerns me going forward," he
says. "It's already happening, and on top of that, I think people dramatically
underestimate just how bad it could get, and also how vulnerable we are to it."
There's already a lot we do know about that future thanks to over 1,000 pages
of analysis released by the federal government this week, detailing how climate
change will impact the country out to the end of the century.
Despite some dire warnings, there is an important message: the impacts can be
greatly reduced if we can limit the warming of the planet.
But will we?”
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
