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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...

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Published in:Futurist Vol. 45; no. 3; pp. 26 - 34
Main Authors: Halal, William E., Marien, Michael
Format: Article
Published: World Future Society Nov/Dec2011
Subjects:
Financial crises
Energy policy
Environmental policy
Terrorism
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