Scenarios of Global Catastrophic Risk
Global catastrophe scenarios - Wikipedia
Scenarios in which a global catastrophic risk creates harm have been widely discussed. Some sources of catastrophic risk are anthropogenic (caused by ...
Global Catastrophic Risks - Global Challenges Foundation
Some of the most pressing examples of these risks include: · Climate change · Ecosystem collapse · Pandemics · Weapons of mass destruction · Potentially disastrous ...
Global Catastrophic Risks: An Impact-Focused Overview
One well-known example of such a risk is climate change; it threatens to increase the frequency of extreme weather events, cause widespread hunger and chronic ...
Four Global Catastrophic Risks – A Personal View - Frontiers
Here I explore the biophysical, social-economic, demographic and cultural strands of four global catastrophic risks – sea level rise, a VEI 7 eruption, a ...
Global catastrophic risk - Wikipedia
A global catastrophic risk or a doomsday scenario is a hypothetical event that could damage human well-being on a global scale, even endangering or ...
Assessing Natural Global Catastrophic Risks
Assessing Natural Global Catastrophic Risks · 1) Natural climate change could in theory cause global catastrophe, such as via a new ice age. · 2) ...
Understanding and Managing Global Catastrophic Risk - RAND
Researchers describe global catastrophic risks from artificial intelligence, asteroid and comet impacts, climate change, nuclear war, ...
Various scenarios of intentional use are currently imaginable but nuclear weapons could also be released by accident, triggering an inadvertent nuclear war. – ...
What is existential risk? ... Existential risks, or global catastrophic risks, are risks that could cause the collapse of human civilization. Prominent examples ...
The future of global catastrophic risk events from climate change
Five types of GCR events with increasing likelihood in a warmer climate · 1) Drought · 2) War · 3) Sea-level rise, combined with land subsidence · 4 ...
Introduction | Global Catastrophic Risks | Oxford Academic
On this definition, an immensely diverse collection of events could constitute global catastrophes: potential candidates range from volcanic eruptions to ...
Scenarios of Global Catastrophic Risk - The Venus Project
Scenarios of Global Catastrophic Risk · misuse or abuse of AI · nuclear war · runaway technologies · ecosystem breakdown. Scenarios of non-anthropogenic GCR ...
Global Catastrophic Risk Assessment - RAND
Researchers describe global catastrophic risks from artificial intelligence, asteroid and comet impacts, climate change, nuclear war, ...
Classifying global catastrophic risks - ScienceDirect.com
For example, asteroid impact-, volcanic super-eruption-, and nuclear war scenarios all feature a risk of significant reduction of inbound solar radiation, ...
Global Catastrophic Biological Risks - The Nuclear Threat Initiative
The risks are further exacerbated by global travel and trade, lack of pandemic preparedness capability, and dependence on a suite of interconnected essential ...
This gives rise to four scenarios: Earth Under Uncertainty, Global Collapse, Stable Earth, and. Earth Under Threat. In all of these scenarios except for Stable ...
Assessing natural global catastrophic risks - PMC - PubMed Central
Almost all natural GCR scenarios involve important interactions between the natural hazard and human civilization. Several natural GCR scenarios ...
Global catastrophic risk from lower magnitude volcanic eruptions
We saw an example of the VEI-GCR asymmetry mechanism in play during the 2010 VEI 4 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, Iceland, whereby a moderate- ...
Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios
Any risk is composed of four determinants: hazard, exposure, vulnerability, and response (3). We have set global warming of 3 °C or more by the ...
A new “all-hazards” approach for reducing multiple catastrophic ...
In practice, an all-hazard approach to global catastrophic risk policy can be achieved via two angles. The first takes a risk-management point ...