{"id":21068,"date":"2016-01-21T21:47:45","date_gmt":"2016-01-22T05:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/martin-rees-can-we-prevent-the-end-of-the-world"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:52:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:52:14","slug":"martin-rees-can-we-prevent-the-end-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/martin-rees-can-we-prevent-the-end-of-the-world","title":{"rendered":"Martin Rees: Can we prevent the end of the world?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tMSU6k5-WXg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Very well thought out, quite intelligent points.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A post-apocalyptic Earth, emptied of humans, seems like the stuff of science fiction TV and movies. But in this short, surprising talk, Lord Martin Rees asks us to think about our real existential risks \u2014 natural and human-made threats that could wipe out humanity. As a concerned member of the human race, he asks: What\u2019s the worst thing that could possibly happen?<\/p>\n<p>TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world\u2019s leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less). Look for talks on Technology, Entertainment and Design \u2014 plus science, business, global issues, the arts and much more.<\/p>\n<p>Find closed captions and translated subtitles in many languages at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/translate\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/translate\" rel=\"nofollow\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/translate\">http:\/\/www.ted.com\/translate<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow TED news on Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/tednews\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/tednews\" rel=\"nofollow\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/tednews\">http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/tednews<\/a><\/a><br \/> Like TED on Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TED\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TED\" rel=\"nofollow\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TED\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TED<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tMSU6k5-WXg&feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very well thought out, quite intelligent points. A post-apocalyptic Earth, emptied of humans, seems like the stuff of science fiction TV and movies. But in this short, surprising talk, Lord Martin Rees asks us to think about our real existential risks \u2014 natural and human-made threats that could wipe out humanity. As a concerned member [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":382,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/382"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44394,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21068\/revisions\/44394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}