by maevehmcguire | Mar 4, 2024 | climate, framing, policy, risk, salience, solutions
For my Final Project, I created a video interviewing UChicago students on their perspectives on whether or not humanity is doomed. This video as a Panopto video is linked above and below and should also be embedded as a YouTube video below: ...
by kelleherjt | Jun 28, 2021 | bio, climate, cyber, nuclear, salience
By Janet and Jane Tunde Kelleher Introduction & Motivation: Poll after poll, potential crisis after potential crisis, the class concurred that, on our current trajectory, humanity is doomed, and that societal transformation has the most promise to avert such...
by meghanlong | Jun 7, 2021 | nuclear, salience, solutions
READ THE BOOK HERE: Goodnight Moon- Adapted for Doom Often referred to as “the very first book to share with a child,” Margaret Wise Brown’s “Goodnight Moon” (1947) tells the story of a little bunny, who notices the many items in his room and then bids them each...
by jtello2 | Jun 6, 2021 | climate, policy, risk, salience
Link to the Paper! In this paper, I aimed to address the reasoning behind why policy implementation is such a complicated and lengthy process when dealing with climate change. Imagining a timescale for impending doom is difficult, and imagining a solution that holds...
by memerz | Jun 5, 2021 | climate, risk, salience
Link to my Op-Ed. In week 4, I wrote my memo starting from the idea that I have a difficult time conceptualizing of the existential threat which AI poses, particularly compared to the threat of nuclear armageddon and of climate change, which I find incredibly salient....
by srmichel | Jun 3, 2021 | climate, nuclear, salience, solutions
We all started as stardust. Our beginnings were mystical and full of hope. Now, what happens as we approach doom? These existential threats are all of a result of human actions. Are we smart enough to fix our own mistakes before it is too late? Or are we doomed...
