{"id":660930,"date":"2020-07-15T10:32:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T14:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=660930"},"modified":"2020-07-15T10:32:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T14:32:38","slug":"qa-coming-soon-a-brief-guide-to-21st-century-megadisasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=660930","title":{"rendered":"Q&amp;A: Coming soon? A brief guide to 21st-century megadisasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to calamities, Jeffrey Schlegelmilch thinks big. In his upcoming book, &#8220;Rethinking Readiness: A Brief Guide to Twenty-First-Century Megadisasters,&#8221; he explores menaces that potentially could change not just lives or communities, but entire societies. He groups these into five categories: climate change; cyber threats; nuclear war; failures of critical infrastructure such as electric grids; and biological perils including pandemics.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-07-qa-21st-century-megadisasters.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Q&amp;A: Coming soon? A brief guide to 21st-century megadisasters<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to calamities, Jeffrey Schlegelmilch thinks big. In his upcoming book, &#8220;Rethinking Readiness: A Brief Guide to Twenty-First-Century Megadisasters,&#8221; he explores menaces that potentially could change not just&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=660930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=660930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=660930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=660930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}