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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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Summaries

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

Why Immigrants Are America’s Superpower
Wendy Edelberg and David Dollar
Brookings Institution, 2023
8 Book

From Beirut to Jerusalem
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
Book

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