He added: “It may be that the growth of science and engineering inevitably outstrips the development of political expertise, leading to disaster. We could be approaching that position.”
So while there is still hope that intelligent life does exist outside Earth, going by Cox’s theory, there’s a very slim chance we will ever be able to make contact.
Cox said: “One solution to the Fermi paradox is that it is not possible to run a world that has the power to destroy itself and that needs global collaborative solutions to prevent that.”