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Global catastrophic risks /
A 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 addi...
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| 520 | |a A 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 natural catastrophes, nuclear war, terrorism, global warming, biological weapons, totalitarianism, advanced nanotechnology, general | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction / Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Ćirković -- Long-term astrophysical processes / Fred C. Adams -- Evolution theory and the future of humanity / Christopher Wills -- Millenial tendencies in responses to apocalyptic threats / James J. Hughes -- Cognitive biases potentially affecting judgement of global risks / Eliezer Yudkowsky -- Observation selection effects and global catastrophic risks / Milan M. Ćirković -- Systems-based risk analysis / Yacov Y. Haimes -- Catastrophes and insurance / Peter Taylor -- Public policy towards catastrophe / Richard A. Posner -- Super-volcanism and other geophysical processes of catastrophic import / Michael R. Rampino -- Hazards from comets and asteroids / William Napier -- Influence of supernovae, gamma-ray busts, solar flares, and cosmic rays on the terrestrial environment / Arnon Dar -- Climate change and global risk / David Frame and Myles R. Allen -- Plagues and pandemics: past, present, and future -- Artificial intelligence as a positive and negative factor in global risk / Eliezer Yudkowsky -- Big troubles, imagined and real / Frank Wilczek -- Catastrophe, social collapse, and human extinction / Robin Hanson -- The continuing threat of nuclear war / Joseph Cirincione -- Catastrophic nuclear terrorism: a preventable peril / Gary Ackerman and William C. Potter -- Biotechnology and biosecurity / Ali Nouri and Christopher F. Chyba -- Nanotechnology and global catastrophic risk / Chris Phoenix and Mike Treder -- The totalitarian threat / Bryan Caplan | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Natural disasters. | |
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| 650 | 6 | |a Catastrophes. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Catastrophes naturelles. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Évaluation du risque. | |
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