The process of change takes time, similar to how activism for climate change took decades to gain momentum. Despite being early in the game with AI and bio-risk, this slow progression offers hope for the future.
The speaker discusses the need to build a movement around activism for climate change and acknowledges frustration with the current lack of awareness but encourages a positive and optimistic outlook.
The likelihood of a global catastrophic event, such as a pandemic or nuclear war, is higher than most of us would like to believe, with a 20% risk of causing hundreds of millions of deaths.
Despite certain indicators of advanced civilization weakening, it's highly probable that civilization would bounce back to industrial levels of technology even if we revert backward today due to lack of restrictions.