Athena Aktipis

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80,000 Hours Podcast · #144 Classic episode – Athena Aktipis on why cancer is a fundamental universal phenomena · 9 Jan 2026 podcast

But I think that we have a lot of vulnerabilities that are sort of just inherent in living in a world that is changing rapidly right now on so many levels.

And so there's...

you know, simultaneously, you know, we can sort of look at some of the data, like on our world and data and see, you know, there are a lot of ways that things have been improving.

But I think that the key piece is really that, you know, we have vulnerabilities that exist and I think are growing that we would do well to try to get ahead of in terms of managing them.

And I think that also just on a sort of human scale that, you know, people's anxiety about what's happening in the world is huge.

going up, right?

Like it's just, there's this sense of like change is happening so fast.

There are, you know, all of these risks.

I mean, the, you know, example you brought up of sort of, you know, the possibility of nuclear events, right?

I mean, the doomsday clock is, you know, pretty damn close to midnight and has been for a while.

So, you know, if we think of like

the things that could kind of end the world like that, that's certainly, I think, a real and present risk.

And there's also, there are a lot of natural disasters that I think have been striking closer to home for people in terms of wildfires, in terms of

Droughts, especially in the U.S., there's just serious issues with water use and availability in the medium term.

And people see out their backyards or on their drives to work that water

things aren't the same with water or you can't actually take your boat out.

Right.

So, so I think that there's a, it's something that's present for people in, in their lives.

And, and not just because of the pandemic kind of making like apocalyptic, you know, ideas a little more.

Yeah.

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