ASE Presidential Address: Science education at a time of existential risk (Reiss) (open access)

By Professor Michael J. Reiss

Issue 389 | Page 5 | Published Nov 2023

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How important are such existential risks as asteroid impacts, climate change, artificial intelligence, genetically modified organisms, pandemics, nuclear war and ecosystems collapse, and should school science address them?

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