premise: "It is hard to find words to capture the fact that humans are facing the most important question in their history—whether organized human life will survive in anything like the form we know—and are answering it by accelerating the race to disaster." Noam Chomsky
hypothesis: The writer is paraphrasing Chomsky.
reason: The statement is a direct quote, not a paraphrase, by Chomsky, as indicated by the quote marks.