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North Korea’s nuclear weapons program threatens to upset that balance, by giving its regime the capacity, through the long-range ballistic missiles it is testing, to strike the West Coast of the US, thereby raising a new version of an old question: would the US risk Los Angeles to protect Seoul?

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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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