The World's Worst Problems
This book addresses the worst problems currently facing humanity and those that may pose future threats. The problems are explained and approached through a scientific lens, and categorized based on data involving global mortality, vulnerability, and threat level. The book presents indices of proble...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing
2019, 2019
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Chapter1. Introduction
- Chapter2. Global problems
- Chapter3. Apocalypse
- Chapter4. Disease Now and Potential Future Pandemics
- Chapter5. Hunger
- Chapter6. Nuclear Weapons
- Chapter7. Global environment in the Anthropocene
- Chapter8. By the Numbers: Ranking the Problems
- Chapter9. What do other people think the worst problems in the world are?
- Chapter 10. Progress toward solving the problems and potential costs of solutions
- Chapter11. Technochimp: An African savannah survivor looking for solutions in the modern world Our inability to see the big picture; it never mattered before, why does it now?
- Chapter12. International cooperation
- Chapter13. Consilience, global socioeconomic political enlightenment, and socioenvironmental restoration