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One: Toby Ord on existential risks

Effective Altruism: Ten Global Problems – 80,000 Hours (October 2021)

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Is There a Risk of Pandemics?

If health systems and economic systems suffer, it could leave us more vulnerable to things like pandemics. Also the fact that an effectively larger part of the earth would be in a tropical environment. So i think that this is something that is certainly recognized as that there could be more endemic disease and maybe more pendemics as well.

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