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THE PRECIPICE - TOBY ORD KARTONIERT (TB)

What existential threats does humanity face? And how can we secure our future?    ' The
Precipice is a powerful book . . . Ord's love for humanity and hope for its future is
infectious ' Spectator  'Ord's analysis of the science is exemplary . . . Thrillingly written'
Sunday Times   We live during the most important era of human history. In the twentieth century
we developed the means to destroy ourselves - without developing the moral framework to ensure
we won't. This is the Precipice   and how we respond to it will be the most crucial decision of
our time.  Oxford moral philosopher Toby Ord explores the risks to humanity's future  from the
familiar man-made threats of climate change and nuclear war  to the potentially greater  more
unfamiliar threats from engineered pandemics and advanced artificial intelligence.  With clear
and rigorous thinking  Ord calculates the various risk levels  and shows how our own time fits
within the larger story of human history. We can say with certainty that the novel coronavirus
does not pose such a risk. But could the next pandemic? And what can we do  in our present
moment  to face the risks head on?  A major work that brings together the disciplines of
physics  biology  earth and computer science  history  anthropology  statistics  international
relations  political science and moral philosophy  The Precipice is a call for a new
understanding of our age: a major reorientation in the way we see the world  our history  and
the role we play in it.

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