Council for the Human Future
Shaping Tomorrow's World Today.
Council for the Human Future
Shaping Tomorrow's World Today.
Our Mission
The Council for the Human Future (CHF) was established to raise global awareness of humanity's growing existential emergency, comprising ten catastrophic risks, and help devise solutions to them all.
Who We Are
The Council is a not-for-profit alliance of scientists and concerned global citizens dedicated to understanding and solving the greatest challenge ever to face humanity: the combination of catastrophic threats that face us all.
The MegaRisks
Existential risks
- Global overheating.
- Global Poisoning.
- Weapons of mass destruction
The Resource Crisis
- Resource scarcity.
- Food insecurity.
- Ecological breakdown and extinction.
Human Impacts
- Pandemic disease.
- Overpopulation.
- Uncontrollable technologies.
- Mass delusion.
Writings on Risk
A warning on climate and the risk of societal collapse
Thresholds, cascades and wicked problems - MAHB
Green Hydrogen: Key to a Carbon-Free Future? - Yale E360
All casked up and nowhere to go: the never-ending problem of nuclear waste/
About the MegaRisks
Solving Our Existential Crisis
The Global Food Crisis is Here - FP
Mass Extinction and the Half-Earth Plan
People like Us
Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere
Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere
Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere
Future Earth
Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere
Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere
Transition Earth
Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere
Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
Future of Life Institute
Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
Oxford Future of Humanity Institute