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Apr 2021
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#306 - Thomas Moynihan - A History Of Ex...

Chris Williamson
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Thomas Moynihan is a historian and an author.

Humans may have only had the ability to destroy ourselves for the last hundred years or so, but thinkers have been hypothesising about the potential end of existence for thousands of years. Today Thomas explains the history of how humanity came to realise its potential for extinction.

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