Global pandemic may pose bigger risk than climate change, report says

A report launched in conjunction with brand new,Given the interconnected nature of the modern world, a domino-effect of vital services caused by such an event could pose much more deadly to humankind than a huge volcanic eruption – or even climate change itself.

‘However a global pandemic, which may or may not happen in coming decades could be different. If there were to be an outbreak it could collapse civilisation as we know it. As I said, climate change is a certainty, whereas this is much more unclear.’One of the most famous examples of a pandemic decimating a population is the Black Death, which swept Europe and parts of Asia, peaking between 1347 and 1351. It killed around one-third of the population – but back then, things were different.

‘Back then, we were still an agrarian society. People grew their own foods and made their own clothes. You wouldn’t need a Black Death level pandemic to wipe us out as the disruption can have a huge effect on its own because of how interconnected everything is.’‘If there were a disruption to the electricity it means not just lights in your house would go out but the gas pumps and the water pumps. So you now don’t just not have electricity you also don’t have gas or water.

‘We live in huge cities but people don’t know how to do anything. I don’t know how to make clothes or grow food. As a civilisation we’re incredibly technologically advanced but individually we’re completely useless.’

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