EDGE OF EXISTENCE

The risk of human extinction has never been higher. The past two years have seen a global pandemic, a renewed nuclear threat and runaway climate change. What if COVID-19 is merely a dress rehearsal for a more serious potential disaster?

New research predicts a 1 in 6 chance that life as we know it won’t make it to the end of this century.

This is a story about the greatest risks to humanity, and what we can do about it. We are living in a time when human-made risks pose the biggest threat to our existence. Technological progress has brought us to a precipice. For the first time ever, we have the capacity to destroy ourselves. Edge of Existence lays out how we can pull ourselves back from this precipice in order achieve a vast and extraordinary future.