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What's the worst that could happen? : existential risk and extreme politics / Andrew Leigh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leigh, Andrew, 1972- author.
- Series:
- The MIT Press
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Populism.
- Radicalism.
- Democracy.
- Existentialism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "An analysis of the ways in which populist politics place our long-term well-being at risk, exploring pandemics, climate change, nuclear war and other issues"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- 1 Why the Future Matters
- 2 Bad Bugs
- 3 A Second Venus
- 4 First We Got the Bomb
- 5 The Last Invention
- 6 What Are the Odds?
- 8 The Death of Democracy
- 9 Fixing Politics
- 10 The End
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index.
- Notes:
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 0-262-36661-4
- 0-262-36662-2
- OCLC:
- 1255633044
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