Like the author said at the end, I think we have the means to fight against these threats, we will just need to work hard as a society and to impose clear redlines not only for ourselves but our partners and adversaries.
It can be quite difficult to blame the Dutch farmers for something that involves the decisions of people all around the world. At this point they may be better to get as rich as possible so that they can weather the pain of climate change better.
The trick with high quality machine learning is that folks need to know programming, math, statistics and the industry they are in. Not everyone can do that.
Do you think we as society are going to change fast enough to combat the challenges we are currently facing? It seems that we are all just repeating past mistakes in a grander scale.