Working to ensure a brighter future for humanity. To get there, we need to confront catastrophic risks including climate change, pandemics and nuclear conflict.
What is a national assessment and why does it matter? Because challenges, risks and threats are not siloed in disciplinary areas. A risk assessment gets us thinking about our future and how to get there safely. @HumanFutureAu@rumtin
https://t.co/tbK9Y0xNjD
What is an effective national #riskassessment for Australia? Risk and #resilience experts came together to discuss at @ANURegNet. Learn more and view the report: https://t.co/gtgl6wPFx6
How civilisations collapse and what we can learn from history to inform current challenges.
Great piece from @LukaKemp and Eric Klein.
#HumanFuture#resilience
https://t.co/EdL8YDlKrI
We interrupt our coverage of Ukraine & nuclear war to present to you my new research paper:
Assessing Natural Global Catastrophic Risks
Read on for some proper doomscrolling.
🎙️ NEW POD 🎙️
On this #PolicyForumPod, @KTrebeck & @timhollo join @cbr_heartdoc to discuss creating political & economic systems that help us better care for ourselves, each other & the planet.
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AI existential risk getting some very prominent airtime. And the article proposes a drastic measure: "Research on artificial intelligence must slow down, or even pause." Otherwise government should compel them. https://t.co/Qd6cNfMh5F
It's as if #Chongqing has become the epicentre of all these global crisis points: drought, heatwaves, climate change bringing on extreme weather which is threatening food supplies, the debate over renewable energy and the #coronavirus amidst #China's ongoing zero #Covid approach.
For the 100th episode of AUSTRALIA IN THE WORLD, we interview Senator Penny Wong, Australia’s Minister for Foreign Affairs @SenatorWong (1/x): https://t.co/ipQy4tbmKV
A useful thread from @lukakemp on his recent article, arguing for serious study of how climate change could contribute to global catastrophe, while pointing out that even the tail of extreme scenarios are unlikely to extinguish humanity 🧵
Recent heatwaves have occurred at 1.1 degrees. Have we invested sufficiently in how life might be at 1.5degrees? #imagination#science#humanfuture
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Lurching from one emergency to the next is no strategy. And the extent of our outlook cannot simply be the next COVID strain, China gripe, bushfire season or severe flood. See my piece in @canberratimes on why Australia needs a national chief risk officer https://t.co/aLJ9hXv2dy
Listen to @cbr_heartdoc talk about climate change, healthcare and our human future as part of the remarkable @maasmuseum series of #100ClimateConversations