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Global Risks

In this channel you will find summaries on acute threats or worrisome trends such as terrorism, climate-change, corruption or deadly pandemics.

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10 Book

The Only Plane in the Sky

An Oral History of 9/11
Garrett M. Graff
Avid Reader Press, 2019
10 Book

The Heat Will Kill You First

Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
Jeff Goodell
Little, Brown US, 2023
9 Book

Slow Burn

The Hidden Costs of a Warming World
R. Jisung Park
Princeton UP, 2024
9 Book

The Global Risks Report 2023

Insight Report, 18th Edition
Sophie Heading and Saadia Zahidi
World Economic Forum, 2023
8 Book

Five Times Faster

Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change
Simon Sharpe
Cambridge UP, 2023
8 Podcast
Wendy Edelberg and David Dollar
Brookings Institution, 2023
8 Book
Thomas L. Friedman
FSG, 1995
8 Book

MegaThreats

Ten Dangerous Trends That Imperil Our Future, And How to Survive Them
Nouriel Roubini
Little, Brown US, 2022
9 Book

The Digital Republic

On Freedom and Democracy in the 21st Century
Jamie Susskind
Pegasus Books, 2022
8 Book

The Plague Cycle

The Unending War Between Humanity and Infectious Disease
Charles Kenny
Scribner, 2021
9 Book

Signals

The 27 Trends Defining the Future of the Global Economy
Jeff Desjardins
Wiley, 2021
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Nomad Century

How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
Gaia Vince
Flatiron Books, 2022