Why 2020 to 2050 Will Be ‘the Most Transformative Decades in Human History’
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Why 2020 to 2050 Will Be ‘the Most Transformative Decades in Human History’
number of potential catastrophes that could transform the world in a matter of months (extraordinarily virulent pandemics, a sequence of volcanic mega-eruptions) or even minutes (collision with a massive extraterrestrial object, accidental nuclear war), and a much longer array of worrisome trends (whose outcome can be a new world order or a histori
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