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The New Yorker staff writer Rivka Galchen joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss a class at the University of Chicago with a tantalizingly dark title: \u201cAre We Doomed?\u201d It\u2019s in the interdisciplinary field of existential risk, which studies the threats posed by climate change, nuclear warfare, and artificial intelligence. Galchen, who spent a semester observing the course and its students, considers how to contend with this bleak future, and how to understand the young people who may inherit it.\xa0
This week\u2019s reading:

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• \u201cAre We Doomed? Here\u2019s How to Think About It,\u201d by Rivka Galchen\xa0
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• \u201cIt\u2019s a Climate Election Now,\u201d by Bill McKibben
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