The World's Worst Problems. 1st ed. 2019

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by Walter Dodds

出版情報:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019

著者名:

• Dodds, Walter.
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ISBN:

9783030304102 [3030304108]    

注記:

Chapter1. Introduction -- Chapter2. Global problems -- Chapter3. Apocalypse -- Chapter4. Disease Now and Potential Future Pandemics -- Chapter5. Hunger -- Chapter6. Nuclear Weapons -- Chapter7. Global environment in the Anthropocene -- Chapter8. By the Numbers: Ranking the Problems -- Chapter9. What do other people think the worst problems in the world are? -- Chapter 10. Progress toward solving the problems and potential costs of solutions -- Chapter11. Technochimp: An African savannah survivor looking for solutions in the modern world Our inability to see the big picture; it never mattered before, why does it now? -- Chapter12. International cooperation -- Chapter13. Consilience, global socioeconomic political enlightenment, and socioenvironmental restoration.
This book addresses the worst problems currently facing humanity and those that may pose future threats. The problems are explained and approached through a scientific lens, and categorized based on data involving global mortality, vulnerability, and threat level. The book presents indices of problem severity to compare relative intensity of current and potential crises. The approach avoids emotional argument using mainly empirical evidence to support the classification of relative problem severity. The author discusses multiple global problems and ranks them. He also explores specific solutions to each problem, links problems to human behavior from a social science perspective, considers international cooperation, and finally pathways to solutions. The book discusses confirmation bias and why this necessitates a scientific approach to tackle problems. The moral assumption that each person has the same rights to life and minimal suffering, and that the natural world has a right to exist, forms the basis of ra

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