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We use cookies on our website, please read our Privacy Policy for more information Okay, thanks Humanity lives within two interlinked systems: the biosphere and global civilization. Together, they are the life support system for all humans. For the first time in history, the structure of our growing global civilization is undermining the integrity of the biosphere upon which it depends. We are crossing planetary boundaries of both extraction and pollution, threatening the ability of our civilizational system to continue. We are rapidly developing and distributing increasingly powerful new technologies across most domains in society. Technological progress is changing our civilization radically, bringing many benefits, while at the same time expanding the range and scope of catastrophic risks. Advanced technologies increase the potential scale and externalities of violence and warfare. No earlier civilization could rapidly destroy the world in totalizing warfare, nor debase the integ

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