"Existential risk and democratic peace"

A BBC piece by Benny Peiser is here.

Excerpts:

A recent study confirms that the annual percentage of people killed by natural disasters has decreased tenfold in the last 40 years, in spite of the fact that the average annual number of recorded disasters increased fivefold. Evidently, open and technological societies are becoming increasingly resilient to the effects of natural disasters.
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...I believe that the prophets of doom, including those predicting climate doom, are wrong.