Commentary
We tend to overuse the term “existential crisis.” Politicians and self-described cultural leaders in the mainstream media and Hollywood are particularly guilty of being Chicken Littles. They tell us that unless we adopt economy-destroying policies, climate change will doom us to mass starvation, flooded coastal cities, and a constant barrage of category-five hurricanes. Some thought leaders on the other side of the political spectrum warn that we’re entering a period where a group of a few hundred thousand global elitist supervillains with enormous IQs will depopulate the planet and keep the rest of us as techno-serfs.
