Conclusion at the end of the article:

It takes money to blow up the world—money and the power to use it for destruction. The power resides in organizations called states, under which most of humanity toils obediently. States claim and enforce the power of taxation and, since World War I, the power of taxation through monetary inflation under the auspices of their central banks. Since monetary inflation is not understood by most people—thanks in part to economists on the payroll of the Federal Reserve—some states have been able to amass enormous destructive force that, if tripped, deliberately or otherwise, could bring all life on earth to an end, and possibly provide an answer to the Fermi paradox.

As long as we have states, we will have state coercion, which leads to the threats we’re facing now.