• The best books on Existential Risks - The Last Children by Gudrun Pausewang
  • The best books on Existential Risks - A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.
  • The best books on Existential Risks - Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
  • The best books on Existential Risks - Climate Shock: The Economic Consequences of a Hotter Planet by Gernot Wagner & Martin L. Weitzman
  • The best books on Existential Risks - The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu

The best books on Existential Risks, recommended by The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

In the rapidly-emerging field of existential risks, researchers study the mitigation of threats that could lead to human extinction or civilisational collapse. We met with four researchers from The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge, to discuss their recommendations of the best books to get a grasp of this dense subject.