{"id":5945,"date":"2015-02-23T15:49:38","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T20:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5945"},"modified":"2015-02-23T15:49:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T20:49:39","slug":"global-system-catastrophe-is-key-threat-to-human-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5945","title":{"rendered":"\u201cGlobal System Catastrophe\u201d Is Key Threat To Human Civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldcore.com\/us\/gold-blog\/global-system-catastrophe-key-threat-human-civilization\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cGlobal System Catastrophe\u201d Is Key Threat To Human Civilization<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><strong>\u00a0\u2013 Oxford Scientists Cite \u201cGlobal System Catastrophe\u201d Among 12 Plausible Threats To Civilization<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; \u201cGlobal System Catastrophe\u201d More Of A Possibility Than Most Western People Suspect<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Study Described As A \u201cScientific Assessment About The Possibility Of Oblivion\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Other Threats Include Nuclear War, Environmental Degradation, Geological Events and Out of Control Technology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Recent research undertaken by scientists in Oxford University to identify possible threats to human civilisation has identified \u201csystem-wide failures caused by the structure of the network\u201d as one of twelve major threats.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goldcore.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/02\/goldcore_bloomberg_chart1_23-02-15.png?b6bb99\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1877 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.goldcore.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2015\/02\/goldcore_bloomberg_chart1_23-02-15.png?b6bb99\" alt=\"goldcore_bloomberg_chart1_23-02-15\" width=\"634\" height=\"409\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Global economic collapse, artificial intelligence and nanotechnology have been named alongside nuclear war, ecological catastrophe and super-volcano eruptions as \u201crisks that threaten human civilization\u201d in a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/globalchallenges.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/12-Risks-with-infinite-impact-full-report-1.pdf\">report by the Global Challenges Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s economic and political systems face systematic risks because of their intricate and interconnected natures. The researchers say more work needs to be done to clarify what parts of the system could collapse and destroy western civilization.<\/p>\n<p>The authors of the study say it is about \u201chow better understanding of the magnitude of the challenges can help the world to address the risks it faces, and can help to create a path towards more sustainable development.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The foundation was set up in 2011 with the aim of funding research into risks that threaten humanity, and encouraging more collaboration between governments, scientists and companies to combat them.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from failure of the systems of civilization the report also looks at the threats posed by the following:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGlobal System Catastrophe\u201d Is Key Threat To Human Civilization \u00a0\u2013 Oxford Scientists Cite \u201cGlobal System Catastrophe\u201d Among 12 Plausible Threats To Civilization &#8211; \u201cGlobal System Catastrophe\u201d More Of A Possibility Than Most Western People Suspect &#8211; Study Described As A \u201cScientific Assessment About The Possibility Of Oblivion\u201d &#8211; Other Threats Include Nuclear War, Environmental Degradation, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2484,139,150,3518,3722,581,3724,3723,3721,786],"class_list":["post-5945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-catastrophe","tag-civilization","tag-collapse","tag-environmental-degradation","tag-global-systems","tag-nuclear-war","tag-oblivion","tag-system-collapse","tag-systems","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5946,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5945\/revisions\/5946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}