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The new risk class has already overtaken the old ones, and this is the most consequential single fact in the health material. Part I quotes the Perlmutters: chronic disease accounts for 70 percent of American deaths, half of Americans suffer at least one chronic illness including diabetes, heart disease, cancer and Alzheimer's, and the World Health Organization now ranks chronic degenerative diseases collectively the number one cause of death on the planet, ahead of famine, infectious disease and wars. The transition Part I describes is not approaching, it has happened. Whatever we built to handle famine, plague and war is now addressing a minority of deaths.

Risk landscape