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Xavier Le Pichon — The Fragility at the Heart of Humanity

On Being with Krista Tippett

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The Challenge for the Whole Humanity

M, i think it makes sense for somebody like me that believes in god, that the difficulties are larger now than they were maybe two, three centuries ago. Why does it make sense to you? Because we have much more possibilitiesan you know, science and nology have given us the possibility to really answers to these challenges. This is the first time in the history of humanity that humanity has to take collective decision like farther, climate, the energy and son. It's an extraordinary thing. Humanity is discovering for the first time that it is a people, and that they have a power of decision on their future. What it will be, what they will do, i don't know.

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