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Libertarianism is the best available self-preservation mechanism. It is the social and memetic equivalent of genetic behavioral dispersion; that members of many species behave slightly differently which reduces the likelihood of a large percentage falling to the same cause.
Of the eighteen existential risks Bostrom listed, that would help against maybe three. If you disagree, tell me how that would help with any of them other than resource depletion and evolution.