| 书目名称 | The World‘s Worst Problems | | 编辑 | Walter Dodds | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Presents issues that are globally important to mankind.Provides a new quantitative framework for approaching problem severity.Showcases new insights into the perception of global problems and how peop | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | 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 ranking problems based on death, suffering, and harm to the natural world. A focus is given to potential disasters such as asteroid collisions and super-volcanic eruptions, whic | | 出版日期 | Book 2019 | | 关键词 | Moral assumptions about problems; Confirmation bias; Risk analysis; Global mortality data; International | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30410-2 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-30409-6 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-30410-2 | | copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019 |
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