Sorry, I forgot the sarcasm tag. Apparently that was not obvious to you. But let's look at the points listed in TFA:
Nuclear war: We've been in danger of it since the 1950's. We even came close on a few occasions. So what's the solution? No one in their right mind has a workable solution. No country that has these weapons is going to give them up. And many countries want this capability. Some are dedicating considerably more resources toward it than others. Do I wish someone could wave a magic wand and make all of the nukes, knowledge of, and desire to build them go away? Hell yes. But it's not possible.
Global Pandemic: Other than isolating the population, what can realistically be done? We can't even stop the yearly flu outbreaks. How are we going to stop something (that may or may not ever happen) "uncontrollable", as the TFA states? By definition, you can't.
Ecological catastrophe: It's rather apparent that as individuals we are interested in this, but as a population no one seems to give a damn. Or at the very least don't feel it's a major concern. Just look at Deepwater Horizon. Or manufacturing in China or India. If the population of the US was truly worried, we'd stop off shoring manufacturing to countries that pollute as badly as we did 50 to 75 years ago. I try to be conscientious of what I purchase. Often looking for the most sustainable option. But it's becoming increasingly more difficult as such products are disappearing from the market.
Global system catastrophe: The global financial systems are so complex, I'm not sure what could even be done at this point. Just trying to stabilize it could bring about the opposite effect. Even so, after the last decade or so, you'd think that, that's what we'd be trying to do. But again, this is something we care about as individuals, but apparently are oblivious to as a population.
Synthetic biology: What can be done that is not already happening? Create a world policing system and execute anyone caught working on an armageddon germ? I'm sure that there are several countries working on this already. If not to devise a defense against it, but under the guise of doing so. Biological warfare is already banned and most of the planet has agreed to it
Nanotechnology: This is a rather vague one. Of course it has enormous potential for misuse. But the potential for good uses is phenomenal. It's like fire. Sure you can burn your neighbors house down with it, but does that mean you shouldn't be allowed to cook with it? or use it for heat? Of course not.
Artificial intelligence: See nanotechnology above. This is no different, other than James Cameron made some movies with Arnold Schwarzenegger. I've often wondered if we will ever hit a level of computing power and connectivity through the internet that AI could somehow spontaneously come into existence. If it did, would it even notice us at all? Would we notice it?
Future bad global governance: This could be happening right now. If you turn on the news, you'd probably be convinced that it is. Unfortunately, only history will know for sure. All we can do as people is to vote for what we believe will be the best people to do what is best (if you're in a country where that's an option) Or you can join or organize a revolt.
Unknown consequences: Yes, fear of the unknown. Fuck! We better start working on re-animation so we can bring back Steve Jobs to eliminate this threat with his reality distortion field. Or maybe we should work on a way to channel the power of all of the other threats into a single combined force in order to defeat this "unknown consequence". Or perhaps doing so will cause it to begin with.
So Oxford throws a bunch of scary scenarios out and what's the resolution at the end of TFA:
One resolution to the Fermi paradox - the apparent absence of alien life in the galaxy - is that intelligent life destroys itself before beginning to expand into the galaxy." It's all very cheery.
*rolls eyes*
