
Global Catastrophic Risks
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- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Introduction
- I Background
- Long-term astrophysical processes
- Evolution theory and the future of humanity
- Millenial tendencies in responses to apocalyptic threats
- Cognitive biases potentially affecting judgement of global risks
- Observation selection effects and global catastrophic risks
- Systems-based risk analysis
- Catastrophes and insurance
- Public policy towards catastrophe
- II Risks from Nature
- Super-volcanism and other geophysical processes of catastrophic import
- Hazards from comets and asteroids
- Influence of Supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, solar flares, and cosmic rays on the terrestrial environment
- III Risks from Unintended Consequences
- Climate change and global risk
- Plagues and pandemics: past, present, and future
- Artificial Intelligence as a positive and negative factor in global risk
- Big troubles, imagined and real
- IV Risks from hostile acts
- Catastrophe, social collapse, and and human extinction
- The continuing threat of nuclear war
- Catastrophic nuclear terrorism: a preventable peril
- Biotechnology and biosecurity
- Nanotechnology as global catastrophic risk
- The totalitarian threat
- Author's biographies
- Index
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