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Hello and welcome to the intelligence from the economist. I'm your host,

Orre Ogambi. Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events

shaping your world. While many American prisons offer education programs, there's

only one that allows inmates to study to graduate level and this initiative is

helping them thrive in more ways than just academically. And we pay tribute to

an accidental hub for British pop culture, a home for comedians and notably

the under-song incubators of rock music. It's the Working Men's Club.

First up though.

Lately, it seems that the chances of humanity being wiped out has been high on many people's minds.

There's the increasing danger of natural disasters from climate change.

People are dying. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction.

There's the threat to the world's population from new diseases, as the global

COVID-19 pandemic forced us to reckon with. Nearly 15 million people around the

world have died from the impact of COVID during the first two years of the

pandemic. And the war in Ukraine has brought back to the

fore a fear that many thought had preceded the possible use of nuclear weapons.

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