Global Megacrisis: Four Scenarios, Two Prespectives.
Catastrophes such as killer pandemics, financial collapses, runaway global warming, environmental decay, nuclear war, and cyberdisasters are becoming increasingly routine news, but as the mainstream media focuses only on individual extreme events, attention is drawn away from an issue much more comp...
| Publicado en: | Futurist Vol. 45; no. 3; pp. 26 - 34 |
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World Future Society
Nov/Dec2011
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| Sumario: | Catastrophes such as killer pandemics, financial collapses, runaway global warming, environmental decay, nuclear war, and cyberdisasters are becoming increasingly routine news, but as the mainstream media focuses only on individual extreme events, attention is drawn away from an issue much more complex, namely, the convergence of multiple problems into a Global MegaCrisis. The writers present an explanation of this issue, in addition to four plausible scenarios based on how it could be approached. |
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