Threat
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This furry little creature is a fresh young bee halfway emerged from its brood cell, and bees right now are dealing with several different problems, including pesticides, diseases, and habitat loss, but the single greatest
threat
is a parasitic mite from Asia, Varroa destructor.
From a security perspective, the long-term generational impact of having millions of children in Syria growing up knowing only war and out of school, this is a far more dangerous
threat
to stability than all of ISIS's weapons combined, and we should spend just as much time and just as much energy to counter this as what we spend when countering ISIS militarily.
It may be a tool to make sure or to lessen the
threat
of an imminent attack on the United States.
We have to stop waiting until we see evidence of a disease becoming a global
threat
before we consider it as one.
Every year, we spend billions of dollars, keeping a fleet of nuclear submarines permanently patrolling the oceans to protect us from a
threat
that almost certainly will never happen.
And yet, despite the fact that we lived for 50 years with the
threat
of such a war, the response of our government and of our society was to do wonderful things.
We rearranged the national security apparatus of the United States and of many governments to address a
threat
that, at the time that those attacks took place, was quite limited.
They posed an existential
threat
to no one.
And therefore, for the first time in history, we were seeing everybody as a
threat.
Everybody has the same worldview, and any view from outside of the group is seen as a
threat.
Today we have a crisis because, because of 9/11, we are still looking in the wrong direction, and we know because we see transformational trends on the horizon that are far more important than what we saw on 9/11; far more important than the
threat
posed by these terrorists; far more important even than the instability that we've got in some areas of the world that are racked by instability today.
So we face an existential
threat
to the future of our planet.
And that made me realize that climate change is the greatest
threat
to human rights in the 21st century.
It's what is meant by overcoming the horror that we feel when we are under
threat
of our enemies, and beginning to appreciate the other.
There had been some indications that some of the species, in particular the bigeye, was under serious
threat.
It divides frequently and isn't a
threat.
To understand the pace of our own government thinking on this, I like to turn to something aptly named the Worldwide
Threat
Assessment, where every year the Director of National Intelligence in the US looks at the global
threat
landscape, and he says, "These are the threats, these are the details, and this is how we rank them."
In 2013, it became the top threat, in 2014 and for the foreseeable future.
But luckily, the solutions to this mounting
threat
are simple and intuitive.
Margaret was beautiful, ambitious, and ruthless in persecuting any
threat
to her power, and she distrusted Richard of York, most of all.
Some are designed to greet young civilizations, others to locate and destroy them before they become a
threat.
This enables increased blood flow, which helpfully accelerates the body's immune response to this perceived
threat.
B-cells can produce millions of these, which then cycle through the body and attack the invaders until the worst of the
threat
is neutralized.
Usually, an immune response will eradicate a
threat
within a few days.
Its actual job is to stop a
threat
from escalating to dangerous levels inside your body.
So, when a
threat
revisits, the cells can swiftly deploy the right antibodies to tackle it before it affects any more cells.
They're desperate to hide the truth, because they view the truth as a
threat
to their bottom line.
It has only been within my lifetime that asteroids have been considered a credible
threat
to our planet.
We were trying to understand the
threat
against us.
It actually also does this with incredible prudence, detecting and reacting to every tiny threat, and furthermore, remembering every previous threat, in case they are ever encountered again.
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