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Behind the all-too-foreseeable end of the American stabilizing mission lurks a civil war in Iraq, which threatens to turn into an Arab-Iranian proxy war for dominance in Iraq, the Gulf, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories, and beyond.

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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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