
Stephen Davies - What Is Global Catastrophic Risk?
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Global Catastrophic Risk
i want to talk about the idea of t the duration of effects. You can distinguish between something which is absolutely devastating, catastrophic even, but where the effects are not particularly long lasting. That's a kind of extra whole level of the catastrophic nature of a certain kind of risk. Not all global catastrophic risks have this quality of permanence. Many do, but not all of them. O, i think that covers global catastrophic risknd,. as you set at the end, their people, as they start wrestling with these conceptsin their headsh remember as they're listening that, you know, different variables and different pillars of these concepts cann come into play and at different levels.
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