"While disease has always been part of the human experience, a combination of global trends, including insecurity and extreme weather, has heightened the risk," a report by the GPMB said. This Is What Happened on the Day the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Hit Earth.Humans Pump Out 100 Times More CO2 Than All the Earth's Volcanoes Combined.How NASA Is Preparing to Defend Earth From Asteroids.Earlier this month, the Global Preparedness Monitoring Board (GPMB)-an independent organization co-convened by the World Health Organization and the World Bank Group-warned that the world is not prepared for a large-scale disease outbreak. Their findings, published in the journal Risk Analysis, show which of the world's islands could serve as "potential refuges for ensuring long‐term human survival in the face of catastrophic pandemics (or other relevant existential threats)". They looked at how accessible each island was and what resources would be available to make it self sufficient. Wilson and his colleague Matt Boyd developed a scoring system that looked at island nations and their potential as a safe haven if a global pandemic struck. "Though carriers of disease can easily circumvent land borders, a closed self-sufficient island could harbour an isolated, technologically-adept population that could repopulate the earth following a disaster." "Discoveries in biotechnology could see a genetically-engineered pandemic threaten the survival of our species," Nick Wilson, from the University of Otago, said in a statement.
In the event of a global pandemic threatening mankind with extinction, Australia and New Zealand would be the best safe havens where humans could survive and eventually repopulate the planet, scientists have said.
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