Global Catastrophic RisksA global catastrophic risk is one with the potential to wreak death and destruction on a global scale. In human history, wars and plagues have done so on more than one occasion, and misguided ideologies and totalitarian regimes have darkened an entire era or a region. Advances in technology are adding dangers of a new kind. It could happen again. In Global Catastrophic Risks 25 leading experts look at the gravest risks facing humanity in the 21st century, including asteroid impacts, gamma-ray bursts, Earth-based natural catastrophes, nuclear war, terrorism, global warming, biological weapons, totalitarianism, advanced nanotechnology, general artificial intelligence, and social collapse. The book also addresses over-arching issues - policy responses and methods for predicting and managing catastrophes. This is invaluable reading for anyone interested in the big issues of our time; for students focusing on science, society, technology, and public policy; and for academics, policy-makers, and professionals working in these acutely important fields. |
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Nutzerbericht - IronMike - LibraryThingGCR (Global Catastrophic Risks) is a real page-turner. I literally couldn't put it down. Sometimes I'd wake up in the middle of the night with the book open on my chest, and the lights on, and I'd ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
LibraryThing Review
Nutzerbericht - IronMike - LibraryThingGCR (Global Catastrophic Risks) is a real page-turner. I literally couldn't put it down. Sometimes I'd wake up in the middle of the night with the book open on my chest, and the lights on, and I'd ... Vollständige Rezension lesen
Inhalt
Longterm astrophysical processes | |
we depend | |
Millennial tendencies in responses to apocalyptic threats | |
scenarios | |
Cognitive biases potentially affecting judgement of global risks | |
Observation selection effects and global catastrophic risks | |
past present and future | |
catastrophes | |
ancient threats | |
Artificial Intelligence as a positive and negative factor in global | |
Big troubles imagined and real | |
Catastrophe social collapse and human extinction | |
The continuing threat of nuclear | |
a preventable peril | |
intelligence | |
Systemsbased risk analysis | |
multiscale systems | |
Catastrophes and insurance | |
Public policy towards catastrophe | |
Supervolcanism and other geophysical processes | |
Hazards from comets and asteroids | |
Influence of Supernovae gammaray bursts solar flares | |
Climate change and global risk | |
nuclear explosive capabilities in the future? | |
of mass destruction | |
biotechnology risks | |
managing outbreaks | |
Nanotechnology as global catastrophic risk | |
The totalitarian threat | |
Authors biographies | |
Evolution theory and the future of humanity | |
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