Because preventing global catastrophe is a policy choice.
We want to live in a world in which all countries around the world act individually and collaboratively to reduce the risk of global catastrophes.
Global Shield exists to advocate with governments worldwide to enact policies to better understand, prevent, prepare for, and respond to global catastrophic risk. We are building an international organization to educate and persuade national and international policymakers to reduce global catastrophic risk (GCR). We believe an all-hazards policy approach to addressing GCR can ensure governments are managing global catastrophic risk more effectively.
We are the world’s first international advocacy organization devoted to all-hazard global catastrophic risk.
We want to live in a world in which all countries around the world act individually and collaboratively to reduce the risk of global catastrophes.
Global Shield exists to advocate with governments worldwide to enact policies to better understand, prevent, prepare for, and respond to global catastrophic risk. We are building an international organization to educate and persuade national and international policymakers to reduce global catastrophic risk (GCR). We believe an all-hazards policy approach to addressing GCR can ensure governments are managing global catastrophic risk more effectively.
We are the world’s first international advocacy organization devoted to all-hazard global catastrophic risk.
What is all-hazard global catastrophic risk?
Broadly speaking, GCR is the risk that any major threat or combination of threats will lead to catastrophic death across the world. These massive threats often include severe climate change, pandemics even worse than Covid-19, nuclear war and the resulting nuclear winter, impacts from advanced artificial intelligence, super volcanoes, asteroids, and more.
Although GCR is sometimes defined by the number of people who might die or the number of countries around the world suffering catastrophe, we don’t find those breakdowns helpful. We know there are threats that can have dire global consequences, and we want to prevent them or at the very least reduce the severity of a catastrophic event.
Moreover, we believe that, from a policy perspective, it can be helpful to look at all of these threats together, similar to the all-hazard approach that many governmental emergency programs use. In many cases, prevention or response to threats may be very similar — if the sun is blocked, how we grow food and feed people will be similar, regardless of whether the cause was an asteroid, a supervolcano, or nuclear winter. It can also be easier to allocate resources toward preventing or addressing a range of threats, rather than individually — NEED EXAMPLE. And many threats become more likely to occur in the presence of another threat — pandemics and war are more likely to occur as a result of climate change.
About Global Shield
At Global Shield, we’re building an international organization that can help advocates educate policymakers in their individual countries about global catastrophic risk (GCR) and why an all-hazard approach to addressing GCR can ensure better, more effective policies are put in place.
Learn moreWe want to live in a world in which all countries around the world act individually and collaboratively to reduce the risk of global catastrophes.
Global Shield exists to advocate with governments worldwide to enact policies to better understand, prevent, prepare for, and respond to global catastrophic risk. We are building an international organization to educate and persuade national and international policymakers to reduce global catastrophic risk (GCR). We believe an all-hazards policy approach to addressing GCR can ensure governments are managing global catastrophic risk more effectively.
We are the world’s first international advocacy organization devoted to all-hazard global catastrophic risk.
Why policy?
The biggest challenges facing the world over the coming decades simply cannot be resolved or reduced without government buy-in, support, and policy. This is especially true for global catastrophic risk, which will affect many countries and almost certainly require some international cooperation. Governments have the mandate, capabilities, resourcing, and power to manage the risks humanity faces.
Countries and people around the world are already dealing with enough deadly challenges. Our objective is to ensure governments have policies in place so that we can prevent or greatly reduce global catastrophic risk, and focus on the pressing matters affecting people today.
We want to live in a world in which all countries around the world act individually and collaboratively to reduce the risk of global catastrophes.
Global Shield exists to advocate with governments worldwide to enact policies to better understand, prevent, prepare for, and respond to global catastrophic risk. We are building an international organization to educate and persuade national and international policymakers to reduce global catastrophic risk (GCR). We believe an all-hazards policy approach to addressing GCR can ensure governments are managing global catastrophic risk more effectively.
We are the world’s first international advocacy organization devoted to all-hazard global catastrophic risk.
How Governments Can Better Understand GCR
Global catastrophic risks are objectively increasing–particularly due to the threats of advanced technologies, climate change, and weapons of mass destruction. Governments are beginning to understand the severity of these threats, but political action is still lacking.
Strategic policy action“It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
We want to live in a world in which all countries around the world act individually and collaboratively to reduce the risk of global catastrophes.
Global Shield exists to advocate with governments worldwide to enact policies to better understand, prevent, prepare for, and respond to global catastrophic risk. We are building an international organization to educate and persuade national and international policymakers to reduce global catastrophic risk (GCR). We believe an all-hazards policy approach to addressing GCR can ensure governments are managing global catastrophic risk more effectively.
We are the world’s first international advocacy organization devoted to all-hazard global catastrophic risk.
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