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Jun 5, 2019 · Authors David Spratt and Ian Dunlop, both longtime climate researchers, warn that climate change at present poses a “near-to-mid-term existential threat to human civilization.”. They drew on ...
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Nov 1, 2021 · The existential threat to human existence as we know it. And every day we delay the cost of inaction increases,” Biden said at COP26. The President continued: “So let this be the moment that ...
Mar 14, 2023 · It is possible, though, to offer a more precise variant of the standard definition of an “existential threat” Footnote 7 – “A threat to something’s very existence when the continued being of something is a stake or in danger.” To be germane for one human being or his family in today’s climate, I suggest: An external and global ...
Dec 1, 2021 · The global climate crisis can be perceived as a threat to existential human needs like control, certainty, and personal existence. These threat appraisals elicit an affective state of individual anxiety – one of the strongest motivators of individual pro-environmental behavior and collective policies and activism.
Apr 29, 2017 · Examples include smallpox, HIV, tuberculosis, and the Black Death, which killed over 75 million people in 1350, or between 13% and 17% of the global population at that time. Today, the widespread ...
Jun 18, 2020 · However, the study of anthropogenic existential threats suggests two tendencies that challenge this conception of the forces of destruction as narrowly concerned with violence: the first calls attention to the human-environment relationship, especially how destruction of the natural environment opens up the threat of an uninhabitable planet (e ...
Sep 12, 2022 · To further specify the threat of existential risks, we propose three different levels of severity: (1) physical threat to human life; (2) threat to basic human needs, such as water, food, health, and shelter; and (3) conditions or risks that undermine the pillars of living standards for acceptable levels of well-being.
