Despite considerable progress, the world remains ill-prepared to detect and respond to outbreaks and is not prepared to respond to a significant pandemic threat. Center for Health Security makes recommendations for heightening awareness and motivating action around global catastrophic biological risks. Nature and technology pose a worrying array of threats to twenty-first century civilization.

2019 414 pp.
The Forum’s Global Risks Report 2019, released earlier this week, describes a world vulnerable to increasing naturally emerging infectious disease threats and risks posed by revolutionary new biotechnologies.

Full report (PDF) A new … The Global Risks Report 2019 is published against a backdrop of worrying geopolitical and geo-economic tensions. Extreme global catastrophe is a subject of endless fascination, and many books have been written on it. Communication guidance addresses existing challenges and enumerates core objectives of key message development for influencers concerned about existential biothreats. If unresolved, these tensions will hinder the world’s ability to deal with a growing range of collective challenges, from the mounting evidence of environmental degradation to the increasing disruptions of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Purchase this item now. Another approach is to consider risk, particularly “global catastrophic risks”.

This term refers to the risk of a catastrophe occurring on a truly global and species-threatening scale, usually considered to mean anything that could wipe out over 10 per cent of the world’s population, or do a comparable amount of damage. By Center Staff | March 4, 2019 .