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I was born at the end of the cold war, unaware of the danger we were emerging from. Duck and cover drills (as if those could protect schoolchildren from a nuclear blast) were a curiosity of the past.
The farmer-poet Wendell Berry, who wrote about the dread of nuclear war, died recently. From his 1968 “The peace of wild things”:
When despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least...
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How much do you think can be efficiently allocated to reducing GCRs?
Regarding Biosecurity, I gather from the text that ~$10bn would probably be adequate. I am having a hard time thinking of scalable ways of working toward reducing other GCRs.
(World GDP is at about $80 trillion)