Chris Williamson

Like half a billion people are still using wood and dung in order to be able to produce their electricity.

That was the data that he showed me the last time we spoke.

That means that if you've got a baby that's on a ventilator, a newborn baby that needs to be put on, that baby dies.

That baby dies because that particular country does not have access to clean

to cheap and reliable energy.

Cleanness does not matter for these people.

Yeah, I've heard that argument that the best result worldwide would be to increase the power supply to all these third world countries.

And then you would have this ability to start manufacturing, doing a bunch of different things that we associate with the negative aspects of the West.

The negative aspects of the West that cause pollution, that cause all these different things.

The problem is electricity is a real bastard to try and move.

I think the entire grid has got eight minutes of battery backup.

10 minutes of battery backup.

It's so little, and it's so cumbersome, and you lose it as you transport it further.

Dude, I get it.

I really believe that existential risks, climate change included, are things that humans should pay attention to.

But if you were to rank, Toby Ord wrote this great book called The Precipice, and he is from the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford.

He wrote...

the best researchers in the world, he got them to rank what are the most dangerous existential risks to humans.

And it's a one in 10,000 chance over the next century coming from climate change.

It's one in six from AI or one in 10 from AI, one in 10 from engineered pandemics, like one in 30 from natural pandemics.