Existential risk to humanity / guest editors, Olle Häggström and Catherine Rhodes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Häggström, Olle, editor.

Rhodes, Catherine, editor.

Series:

Foresight, 1463-6689 ; Volume 21, Number 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanity.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 pages).

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2019.

Summary:

Existential risks are those that threaten the extinction of humanity, or, somewhat more broadly, those "where an adverse outcome would either annihilate Earth-originating intelligent life or permanently and drastically curtail its potential" (Bostrom, 2002). While it has long been widely recognized that global nuclear war and catastrophic climate change have potentially civilization-threatening consequences, it is only in the last decade or two that scholars have begun, in work that is typically highly interdisciplinary, to systematically investigate a broader range of existential risks. The papers in this ebook discuss these issues.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-83867-192-7