Ten threats to humanity’s survival identified in Australian report calling for action

by Lisa Cox, The Guardian

Governments should use the urgency of the Covid-19 pandemic to address 10 potentially catastrophic threats to the survival of the human race, according to a report by a collection of prominent Australian researchers and public figures.

A report by a group called the Commission for the Human Future identifies a list of risks to life on the planet including pandemic disease, climate change, environmental decline and extinction, and overpopulation.