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Global Catastrophic Risks Edited by Nick Bostrom Milan M. Cirkovic OXPORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Contents Acknowledgements 10 Martin J. Rees. Foreword 11 Contents 15 1. Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkoviс. Introduction 23 1.1 Why? 23 1.2 Taxonomy and organization 24 1.3 Part I: Background 27 1.4 Part II: Risks from nature 31 1.5 Part III: Risks from unintended consequences 32 Part I. Background 43 2. Fred C. Adams . Long-term astrophysical processes 43 2.1 Introduction: physical eschatology 43 2.2 Fate of the Earth 43 2.3 Isolation of the local group 45 2.4 Collision with Andromeda 45 2.5 The en