Worst-Case ScenariosHarvard University Press, 2009 M05 15 - 352 pages Nuclear bombs in suitcases, anthrax bacilli in ventilators, tsunamis and meteors, avian flu, scorchingly hot temperatures: nightmares that were once the plot of Hollywood movies are now frighteningly real possibilities. How can we steer a path between willful inaction and reckless overreaction? |
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... calamity from climate change — with hundreds of millions of deaths from malaria and other climate - related diseases , countless extinctions , the melt- ing of the polar ice sheets , catastrophic flooding in Introduction 3.
... deaths , and a ( low ? ) probability of many more . The Bush administration resisted significant steps to halt climate change , pointing to the burdens and costs of the regulatory ac- tions that some people believe to be required ...
... deaths — and such wars can increase , rather than decrease , overall dangers to national security . Often people , and nations , take undue precautions against worst- case scenarios simply because they disregard the burdens and risks of ...
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