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6 - Food as an Existential Risk

Extinction and Ecological Collapse – Resource Scarcity – Weapons of Mass Destruction – Climate Change – Poisoned Planet – Food Security – Pandemic Disease – Population and Megacity Failure – Uncontrolled Supertechnologies – Self-Delusion – Solving the Risks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 August 2019

Julian Cribb
Julian Cribb
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Julian Cribb & Associates
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The human existential emergency: describes the 10 intersecting threats to the human future and the role/impact of food in each. Calls for cross-cutting solutions for all ten issues. Learning to think as a species.Women ‘must lead’ in all spheres of human activity.

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Existential riskendgamecrosscutting solutionsextinctionnuclear warclimate changechemical crisisresource scarcitypandemic diseasemegacitiessupertechnologiespandemic diseaseself-delusion
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Food or War , pp. 174 - 202
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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