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Hundreds of scientists, writers and academics sounded a warning to humanity in an open letter published last December: Policymakers and the rest of us must engage openly with the risk of global collapse.

在去年12月发表的一封公开信中，数百名科学家、作家和学者向人类发出了警告：政策制定者和我们其他人必须公开应对全球崩溃的风险。

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Beyond all this, though, I believe there's a fundamental reason why we have not faced global collapse in the last year.

除了上边提到的因素，我相信之所以我们在去年没有面临全球崩溃，还存在另外一个非常重要的原因。

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At a similar gathering last year, members of the so-called G20 set of advanced economies agreed on emergency spending to stem a global crisis brought on by the collapse of U.S.investment bank Lehman Brothers in late 2008.

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Also up there is the fallout from a global economic collapse, possibly resulting from a state of peak oil -- the point where oil production reaches its peak and thereafter goes into freefall.

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There were headlines every day about the possibility of a global economic collapse.

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After all, Bernie did not cause a global financial collapse.

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