Collapse of Systems, not our Humanity

Three vantage points on the same unravelling. Civilisations have always fallen, but this one is global, and the weapons in its hands are totalising: nuclear, algorithmic, atmospheric.

The question is no longer whether we are in collapse, but how to govern, how to stay human, and what is worth carrying forward.

Show Notes

Around the table

Luke Kemp

Research affiliate · Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge

A research affiliate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge, and author of the recent Goliath’s Curse. Kemp has lectured in economics and human geography, and has advised the World Health Organization, the Australian Parliament, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, and many other institutions. His research has been covered by The New York Times, the BBC and The New Yorker.

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Sarah Wilson

Author and social philosopher · host, Wild podcast

A multi-New York Times bestselling author and social philosopher, Wilson founded the global I Quit Sugar movement and wrote First, We Make the Beast Beautiful and This One Wild and Precious Life. She now explores modern philosophy, existential risk and climate change through her recent book I Eat the Stars, the Wild podcast and her Substack. Sarah lives nomadically between Paris and Sydney.

sarahwilson.com

A.C. Grayling

Philosopher · Principal, Northeastern University London

A British philosopher and Principal of Northeastern University London, Grayling is the author of more than thirty books on philosophy, ethics and democracy, including Democracy and Its Crisis, Who Owns the Moon? and the 2025 Discriminations. A prominent public intellectual, he has long argued that representative democracy is structurally failing, and that stewarding civilisation through this moment requires concrete institutional reform, not despair.

acgrayling.com