Avoiding collapse: Grand challenges for science and society to solve by 2050

post by morganism · 2016-08-15T05:47:52.487Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 3 comments

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"We maintain that humanity’s grand challenge is solving the intertwined problems of human population growth and overconsumption, climate change, pollution, ecosystem destruction, disease spillovers, and extinction, in order to avoid environmental tipping points that would make human life more difficult and would irrevocably damage planetary life support systems."

 

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https://elementascience.org/articles/94

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comment by turchin · 2016-08-15T16:38:19.735Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

It seems that this article completely ignore risks of future technologies, like AI, bio and nanotech

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comment by The_Jaded_One · 2016-08-17T13:27:22.142Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

And some of the listed problems seem to be vastly less serious, in particular extinction of other species.

comment by DanArmak · 2016-09-02T11:45:40.393Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

It took me a couple of seconds to realize that by "extinction" they mean that of non-human species. My LW background is showing :-)