civilisation

Preparing for Catastrophic Risk

Humans are facing our greatest existential emergency since we first appeared as a distinct species a million or more years ago. Ours is the era of global catastrophic risk, a beyond-perilous time in which ten great, interwoven threats combine to confront us, as individuals and as a species, with the most profound challenge we have ever faced.

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