Is the World Ending? A Lancet Commission Says Maybe

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A three-year Lancet Commission effort on future health threats has warned of a small but nonzero chance that humanity could fail to survive this century. The report’s warning was presented in Berlin during a period of debate around candidates for WHO director-general.

BERLIN – As candidates to become WHO director-general squabbled in the halls of the InterContinental, a three-year effort by the Lancet on future health threats delivered a sombre if uncertain warning: There is a chance, however small, that humanity will not survive this century – and we may all die. Two of the threats it […]