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""Let SJ Beard replace your existential anxiety with existential hope – once you read this book there is no going back, and your world won’t ever look quite the same again."" Mark Lynas, author of Six Minutes to Winter: Nuclear War and How to Avoid It ""SJ Beard eloquently lays out our past and current predicament to help us all direct a more hopeful future. Timely and much needed."" Hannah Critchlow, author of Joined-Up Thinking: The Science of Collective Intelligence ""SJ Beard is one of the founders of the field of existential risk and has thought deeply about the precarious nature of civilization. In this accessible work, by turns philosophical and personal, Beard flips the script and focuses on the many ways our shared humanity provides a beacon of light guiding us forward."" Daniel Holz, Chair of the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, setters of the Doomsday Clock

‘Let SJ Beard replace your existential anxiety with existential hope – once you read this book there is no going back, and your world won’t ever look quite the same again.’ Mark Lynas, author of Six Minutes to Winter: Nuclear War and How to Avoid It   ‘SJ Beard eloquently lays out our past and current predicament to help us all direct a more hopeful future. Timely and much needed.’ Hannah Critchlow, author of Joined-Up Thinking: The Science of Collective Intelligence   ‘SJ Beard is one of the founders of the field of existential risk and has thought deeply about the precarious nature of civilization. In this accessible work, by turns philosophical and personal, Beard flips the script and focuses on the many ways our shared humanity provides a beacon of light guiding us forward.’ Daniel Holz, Chair of the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, setters of the Doomsday Clock ""Let SJ Beard replace your existential anxiety with existential hope – once you read this book there is no going back, and your world won’t ever look quite the same again."" Mark Lynas, author of Six Minutes to Winter: Nuclear War and How to Avoid It   ""SJ Beard eloquently lays out our past and current predicament to help us all direct a more hopeful future. Timely and much needed."" Hannah Critchlow, author of Joined-Up Thinking: The Science of Collective Intelligence   ""SJ Beard is one of the founders of the field of existential risk and has thought deeply about the precarious nature of civilization. In this accessible work, by turns philosophical and personal, Beard flips the script and focuses on the many ways our shared humanity provides a beacon of light guiding us forward."" Daniel Holz, Chair of the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, setters of the Doomsday Clock

""Let SJ Beard replace your existential anxiety with existential hope – once you read this book there is no going back, and your world won’t ever look quite the same again."" Mark Lynas, author of Six Minutes to Winter: Nuclear War and How to Avoid It ""SJ Beard eloquently lays out our past and current predicament to help us all direct a more hopeful future. Timely and much needed."" Hannah Critchlow, author of Joined-Up Thinking: The Science of Collective Intelligence ""SJ Beard is one of the founders of the field of existential risk and has thought deeply about the precarious nature of civilization. In this accessible work, by turns philosophical and personal, Beard flips the script and focuses on the many ways our shared humanity provides a beacon of light guiding us forward."" Daniel Holz, Chair of the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, setters of the Doomsday Clock

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SJ Beard is Academic Programme Manager and Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge.

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