It’s a disturbing sign of the times that the global levers of power today are controlled by genocidal murderers, sex-offenders, megalomaniac sociopaths, war criminals and rapacious billionaires who should all be in jail. Collectively, these psychopaths are driving the human race ever closer to the seventh mass extermination, this time of homo sapiens — which is probably a good thing from a planetary perspective, for we do not deserve this wonderful orb. Any one of three forces — artificial intelligence (AI), climate change, war — has the capacity to exterminate us, but it gets even worse. The last three years...