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A significant strengthening of the dollar would indeed cause serious problems for emerging economies where businesses and governments have taken on large dollar-denominated debts and currency devaluation threatens to spin out of control.

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Sea level rise threatens coastal ecosystems, agriculture, even major cities.

Another technological danger that threatens the future of democracy is the merger of information technology with biotechnology, which might result in the creation of algorithms that know me better than I know myself.

Clearly, we have never understood what is causing desertification, which has destroyed many civilizations and now threatens us globally.

The digital world cannibalizes time, and in doing so, I want to suggest that what it threatens is the completeness of ourselves.

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