flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

12 Risks That Threaten Human Civilisation -

the-knowledge.org · 163 words · saved by 1 readers

The Global Challenges Foundation has released its new report about global hazards that for all practical purposes can be considered to represent an infinite impact – the global collapse of civilisation, if not even driving humanity to extinction. ’12 Risks That Threaten Human Civilisation’ offers a review of the key possible events, and ties to roughly quantify the probabilities of each. The 12 global risks threatening human civilisation that the report discussed are: Current risks 1. Extreme Climate Change 2. Nuclear War 3. Ecological Catastrophe 4. Global Pandemic 5. Global System Collapse Exogenic risks 6. Major Asteroid Impact 7. Supervolcano Emerging risks 8. Synthetic Biology 9. Nanotechnology 10. Artificial Intelligence 11. Uncertain Risks Global policy risk 12. Future Bad Global Governance Read the full report here Comments are closed.

The Global Challenges Foundation has released its new report about global hazards that for all practical purposes can be considered to represent an infinite impact – the global collapse of civilisation, if not even driving humanity to extinction. ’12 Risks That Threaten Human Civilisation’ offers a review of the key possible events, and ties to roughly quantify the probabilities of each. The 12 global risks threatening human civilisation that the report discussed are: Current risks 1. Extreme Climate Change 2. Nuclear War 3. Ecological Catastrophe 4. Global Pandemic 5. Global

Explore this link on the map →

related reading