by madsnewton | Mar 8, 2024 | bio, climate
The Earth has warmed about 1.36°C since the Industrial Revolution and current estimates predict that the Earth will warm another 1.5°C by 2050 (SOURCE). The 1.5°C (and sometimes even 2°C) figure is thrown around a lot when talking about climate change, but often...
by cbgravitt | Mar 4, 2024 | bio, climate, cyber, nuclear, policy, risk
Race Against the Doomsday Clock By Charlie Gravitt, Lawton Bauer, and Miles Brown Download (Windows and Linux only): Windows version Linux Version If those don’t work, try to access it via UChicago box at this link, and see the bottom of this post for how to...
by miansimmons | Mar 3, 2024 | bio, climate, cyber, framing, nuclear
Fermi’s Fate: A Game of Existential Gambits By Mia Simmons, Aidan Jones, Audrey Scott, and Daniela Chen We created a board game called “Fermi’s Fate: A Game of Existential Gambits” that contextualizes the existential risks covered in class, educating players and...
by lubaishao | Mar 3, 2024 | bio, policy, risk
Introduction The COVID-19 pandemic is a major disaster faced by the world in the 2020s. According to data from the World Health Organization website, as of the evening of May 3, 2023, there have been a total of 760 million confirmed COVID-19 cases globally, with 6.92...
by anushag | Mar 3, 2024 | bio, policy, solutions
A Response Plan to Virus X Anusha Gupta and Brianna Liu For our project, we imagined a severe, hypothetical virus called Virus X and created a response plan for it from the perspective of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Link to website:...
by kelleherjt | Jun 28, 2021 | bio, climate, cyber, nuclear, salience
By Janet and Jane Tunde Kelleher Introduction & Motivation: Poll after poll, potential crisis after potential crisis, the class concurred that, on our current trajectory, humanity is doomed, and that societal transformation has the most promise to avert such...
