A study of Western Australia and China during the COVID-19 epidemic suggests that one possibility is to establish a safe refuge. Establishing a safe refuge - on an island or in such remote locations like the moon or underwater - where a portion of the human population can remain alive has been prop
One idea for saving humanity in the case of a lethal pandemic or other great global catastrophe is to create a safe refuge where some people can survive.
Seth Baum, a geographer and the executive director of the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute in Washington, D.C., and Vanessa Adams, a geographer at the, investigated the case of China and Western Australia, two political jurisdictions that share borders with other countries but have managed to keep COVID-19 infections at a low level. The predicted number of cases per 100,000 people in China from March 2020 to January 2022 was 1,358 as opposed to 98,556 in the US and 142,365 in India.
In their paper, Baum and Adams examine both the differences and similarities between China and Western Australia. China is authoritarian, collectivist, and heavily populated in the most populous region of the world. Western Australia is democratic, individualist, and sparsely populated in one of the most remote regions of the world.
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