13 Major Global Risks That Used To Be The Stuff Of Science Fiction

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The theme of World Economic Forum's Global Risks 2013 report, just out this week, is "resilience."

It includes a new a "national resilience measurement" to determine which countries are best positioned to manage catastrophe.

But no country would be able to bounce back from some of the risks included in the survey.

We picked out 13 of the more bizarre scenarios the Forum envisions.