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The accretion of blinders is but one aspect of our indwelling; our unwillingness
to actually confront the crisis at the collective level (undoubtedly the primary driver
of our rapid final act) prefiguring a most dour and irremediably paradoxical situation: Can we shake this statistical apathy in the face of our extinction? Is kin- altruism
enough, at this late stage, to resurrect some council of clarity, a parliament of philosophers with the credible voice to step in before it is simply too late to ecologically liberate the biosphere? (Fig. 52.3).
52 The Extinction Probability Era
The accretion of blinders is but one aspect of our indwelling; our unwillingness
to actually confront the crisis at the collective level (undoubtedly the primary driver
of our rapid final act) prefiguring a most dour and irremediably paradoxical situation: Can we shake this statistical apathy in the face of our extinction? Is kin- altruism
enough, at this late stage, to resurrect some council of clarity, a parliament of philosophers with the credible voice to step in before it is simply too late to ecologically liberate the biosphere? (Fig. 52.3).
52 The Extinction Probability Era