“[I]t is unlikely, given our current level of moral competence, that we will be able to solve the problem [of climate change or existential risk]. Hence we need to improve our moral competence. More precisely, we need to change in the direction away from our tendency to do what is egoistically prudentially good and towards what is morally good, in the sense that each person does what is best for everyone on the whole. To some extent we have done so by education, and while progress has not been zero it is still insufficient.”

— Olle Häggström, Here Be Dragons: Science, Technology and the Future of Humanity, Chapter “Our planet and its biosphere”, p. 34