In the midst of an escalating war in the Middle East, the co-founder and CEO of Zerodha Nithin Kamath on Sunday, he said billions are being spent every day on war and destruction, making an already bad situation worse.
He also said that threats that come from Outer Space are manageable, but those we “create ourselves” cannot be managed.
He expressed his opinion on the war in a post on social media on X.
Kamath said he recently watched ‘The Dinosaurs’, a four-part documentary series, on Netflix.
Produced by Steven Spielberg and narrated by Morgan Freeman, the documentary examines the 165 million years of dinosaurs’ reign on Earth.
Kamath also recommends ‘The Dinosaurs’ to watch especially with children.
Co-founder Zerodha said in his post: “Watched a dinosaur documentary on Netflix this weekend. Highly recommend, especially with kids. Dinosaurs ruled the planet for 165 million years. Then an asteroid they never saw coming ended it all with a geological wink.”
He points out that while human modernity is short, their capacity for self-destruction has evolved in a mere “blink” of human history. Threat complexity is growing exponentially faster than human biological or social evolution.
“Humans with abstract thought, art, and complex language, what we would call truly modern humans, have existed for maybe 50,000 to 100,000 years. Civilization as we know it? Writing, cities, organized society? Maybe 5,000 years. The version with industrial technology, global trade, and the ability to reshape the planet for 200 years, AI and the version with nuclear weapons. in less than 100 years, by the way, NASA can track and deflect them.
Kamath went on to say, “The thing that wiped out 165 million years of dinosaurs, we figured it out. And yet billions are spent daily on war and destruction, making the already bad climate even worse. Threats from space are becoming manageable. Those we create ourselves, not so much.”
“The dinosaurs had no choice. The asteroid just came. We did. That’s why it’s so much harder to watch what’s happening right now,” he added.
About the war in the Middle East
The West Asia was sparked by joint US-Israeli strikes on Iran that killed the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on February 28. Since then, at least 1,230 people have been killed in Iran and at least 397 in Lebanon.
In retaliation, Iran launched several attacks on Israel, US bases in the Persian Gulf, and US allies in the region.
The targets of Iran’s war spread dangerously into civilian infrastructure on Sunday, as Bahrain accused Iran of striking one of the desalination plants that are key to the Gulf states’ drinking water.
As Israel-hit oil depots smoldered in Tehran after a late-night strike prompted an environmental alert for citizens, Iran’s president vowed to expand attacks on US targets across the region in the ninth day of the war.
