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Oxford University Researchers List 12 Global Risks To Human Civilization
An anonymous reader writes The 12 greatest threats to civilization have been established by Oxford University scientists, with nuclear war and extreme climate change topping the list. Published by the Global Challenges Foundation, the report explores the 12 most likely ways civilization could end. "[This research] is about how a 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," the study's authors said. "It is a scientific assessment about the possibility of oblivion, certainly, but even more it is a call for action based on the assumption that humanity is able to rise to challenges and turn them into opportunities."
I think Lists are the real problem.
How many times have they found Lists in bad guy's pockets?
1. Steal some cash
2. Beat up old lady
3. Shoot up a crowd.
4. Go home and chill with some Jamaican...and not the kind with dreadlocks.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
I wasn't expecting it, but now that I've thought about it more, it does make perfect sense. Systemd is perhaps the most harmful thing to have ever happened to the Linux community. It has caused more strife, discontent, anger, animosity and uncertainty than even Microsoft or SCO ever managed to cause.
It was forced, through slimy political means, upon all Debian users. This has ruined the reliability and stability of Debian, which in turn has torn apart the Debian community.
And since Linux is the most important thing to all of humanity, anything that harms Linux in such a manner is clearly harmful to the entire world and human race. So, yeah, it does make sense why systemd would be the number one threat.
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and I bet you thought I would put Putin in 12.
12. Putin
YOu were right!
You misspelled Religion
Gentlemen as an american i belive i can lend clarity to this alarmist list of, as you say, poppycock.
1. Extreme Climate Change: not a problem. climate change is actually just a theory, not a fact, advanced by scienists in order to get attention and grant money.
2. Nuclear War: no problem at all. If iraq, afghanistan, and viet-nam are any indication then rest assured America would win a nuclear war by winning the hearts and minds of whatever we were bombing.
3. Ecological Catastrophe: Again, we solved this by offering loans to banks and car companies in exchange for not restroying our ecology and creating more jobs.
4. Global Pandemic: Well obviously Ebola is a great example. Here we have a disease that has existed undetected by american scientists for probably 10 years, and then we cured it through declaring war on it. now theres no more ebola.
5. Global System Collapse: Easily defeated by avoiding taco bell and undercooked meat.
6. Major Asteroid Impact: during simulations and documentary, science has proven bruce willis would defeat the asteroid.
7. Supervolcano: not sure what that one is, but if its not a flavour of frozen confection or a menu item at ChiChis, we've got a war for it.
8. Synthetic Biology: clearly outlawed according to jesus unless we're talking about chia pets.
9. Nanotechnology: in america we have soap with little plastic scrubby beads that comes out of a pump. we're using nanotechnology responsibly and a lemon-scented fresh way.
10. Artificial Intelligence: Was an excellent movie but also did you know? we have self driving cars that use artificial intelligence to get us through the mcdonalds drive through safely without having to get the dashboard all greasy
11. Uncertain Risks: sometimes those are the risks you gotta take, like for example during our patrio-tastic invasion mind saving trip to iraq for freedom...how did we know ISIS would suddenly appear out of nowhere? thats why we have a plan for uncertain risks and a friend in jesus.
12. Future Bad Global Governance: Electing Jeb Bush or Sarah Palin would help the globals by making sure the governance is true and strong. and patriotic. we'd keep a list of baddies too, and probably make an axis of awesome countries that would be in charge of truthiness and justice.
Good people go to bed earlier.
18. TV show is cancelled before the plot lines are resolved leading to angry aliens storming the planet demanding to see the ending.
My sci-fi novel, Ghost Thief, is now available from Amazon.com.
Growing up in the 70s and 80s I always thought that by this time I would be driving along in some barren post-apocalyptic wasteland in my cobbled-together hot-rod fighting off mohawked motorcycle gangs and saving busty babes from mutant frog-people. Instead I'm reading slashdot in my cubical as my code compiles. Sigh.
The Moore-Murphy Law: The number of things that will go wrong will double every 2 years.
"1. Extreme Climate Change: not a problem. climate change is actually just a theory, not a fact, advanced by scienists in order to get attention and grant money. "
Given the facts of data tampering, the man made climate change religion is losing the battle and the war, lol. It's hard to believe that people actually think they can tamper/falsify data on such a huge scale and get away with it.