{"id":24734,"date":"2016-04-16T19:47:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T02:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/stephen-hawking-human-aggression-could-destroy-us-all"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:16:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:16:42","slug":"stephen-hawking-human-aggression-could-destroy-us-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/stephen-hawking-human-aggression-could-destroy-us-all","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Hawking: Human Aggression Could \u2018Destroy Us All\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/stephen-hawking-human-aggression-could-destroy-us-all.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I couldn\u2019t agree more\u2026aggression and recklessness.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Stephen Hawking may be getting some Hollywood love for \u201cThe Theory of Everything,\u201d a biopic about his life that earned actor Eddie Redmayne the best actor Oscar at last night\u2019s Academy Awards. But that hasn\u2019t stopped the world-famous physicist from issuing yet another warning about humanity\u2019s impending doom.<\/p>\n<p>Human aggression threatens to destroy us all, Hawking said during a tour of London\u2019s Science Museum last week. The remark was in response to a question about what human shortcomings he would most like to alter. Hawking suffers from a neurological disease similar to Lou Gehrig\u2019s disease, or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).<\/p>\n<p>A major nuclear war would be the end of civilization and possibly the human race, the Cambridge University professor said. Hawking called for greater empathy, and added that human space exploration is necessary as \u201clife insurance\u201d for humanity. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/13268-war-history-human-aggression-nuclear-weapons.html\">Fight, Fight, Fight: The History of Human Aggression<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/49906-hawking-human-aggression-warning.html\">http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/49906-hawking-human-aggression-warning.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I couldn\u2019t agree more\u2026aggression and recklessness. Stephen Hawking may be getting some Hollywood love for \u201cThe Theory of Everything,\u201d a biopic about his life that earned actor Eddie Redmayne the best actor Oscar at last night\u2019s Academy Awards. But that hasn\u2019t stopped the world-famous physicist from issuing yet another warning about humanity\u2019s impending doom. Human [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-existential-risks","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24734","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\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24734"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50796,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24734\/revisions\/50796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}