Humanity should focus on successes and progress made rather than only emphasizing current threats and risks.

“I'm saying maybe we should pick in addition to worrying about the violence that persists to this day we should look at the successes and say well what did we do right let's do more of that and there's not much of people saying look how far we've come let's list how we achieve this why don't people d”

Humans may struggle to survive as a species because they have the potential to build things that cause their own destruction.

“either that is going to be our own destruction because we can build things that can kill ourselves or we'll be able to figure out a way of living beyond the traditional lifetime of many species.”