Stephen Davies - What Is Global Catastrophic Risk?
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What Is a Global Catastrophic Risk?
A global risk is a risk which, if it is to happen, will have effects for the entire planet and all the human beings who live on it. Many risks which are catastrophic for part of the world are not global. The eruption of vesuvius r in the first century a d wiped out and was catastrophic for the populations of pompei and herculanium. Even the black death was not a truly global catastrophic risk. It wiped out about half the population of urasia, but it left southern africa and the americas untouched.
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