Human extinction
''Why the future doesn't need us'' , Wired, April 2000
Wired 8.04: Why the future doesn't need us.
Armageddon Online - End of the World Scnearios & Extinction Events
Armageddon Online | Super Volcano, Nuclear Warfare, Mega
Tsunami, Asteroid Impact, World War III, End of the World
Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios - The original essay by Nick Bostrom
Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios
See full text at SETIleague.org brin
galactic-guide . Former NASA consultant David Brin's lengthy rebuttal to SETI enthusiast's optimism about alien intentions concludes: "The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been t
Alien Invasion, The Likelihood Of
GLF, A Modest Proposal . Leslie, 1996 says that Aum’s collection of nuclear physicists presented a doomsday threat from Nuclear destruction as well, especially as the cult included a rocket scientist.
Statement of Purpose
Aum watcher, Akihiko Misawa . The Gaia Liberation Front advocates (but is not known to have active plans for) total human genocide, see:
Aum bio-attacks opened Pandora's box
ReligiousTolerance.org says that ''Aum Supreme Truth'' is the only religion known to have planned Armageddon for non-believers . Their intention to unleash deadly viruses is covered in Our Final Hour, and by
DOOMSDAY, DESTRUCTIVE RELIGIOUS CULTS
Abrupt.org 1996 editorial lists (and condemns) the arguments for human’s tendency to self-destruction. In this view, the history of humanity suggests that humans will be the cause of their own extinction. However, others have reached the opposite conclusion with the same data
In Condemnation of Despair
Is Humanity Suicidal? New York Times Magazine May 30 1993).
Is Humanity Suicidal?
Decisions From Experience and the Effect of Rare Events in Risky Choice . The under-perception of rare events mentioned above is actually the opposite of the phenomenon originally described by Kahneman in " prospect theory" (in their original experiments the likelihood of rare events is over-estimated
Armageddon at the Millennial Dawn from The Journal of Religion and Film finds that "While end of the world threats perhaps are not avoidable, the cinematic formulation of millennial doom promotes the notion that the end can be averted through employing human ingenuity, scientific ad
Journal of Religion & Film: Armageddon at the Millenial Dawn by Conrad Ostwalt
Philosophical Implications of Inflationary Cosmology princeton physics
BBC Discussion of how cavemen avoided extinction David Goldstein's molecular biology is credited with uncovering the population bottleneck, said to be "just before 100,000 years ago." Freezing temperatures or water shortages are given as possible reasons for the catastrophe presumed to have caused t
BBC - Science & Nature - The evolution of man
Exit Mundi
"Twenty ways the world could end suddenly" . From Discover Magazine, Oct 2000.
Discover: Twenty ways the world could end suddenly
Doomsday.org guide to extinction scenarios , according to religious prophecy and resulting from scientific advances.
Doomsday Scenarios Home
Forty-five extinction scenarios from exitmundi.nl with light-hearted pictures and pithy names.
WELCOME TO EXIT MUNDI: A COLLECTION OF END-OF-WORLD SCENARIOS
The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement homepage — a group in favour of human extinction through voluntary non-reproduction (motto: "May we live long and die out").
VHEMT
''The ethics of peace: why sustainability must be the basis'', a Nature & Society Forum paper by John Ward where the author considers amongst other things whether there is a real risk of human extinction.
Nature & Society Forum
"Living on a lifeboat" - Garrett Hardin's 1974 grim review of the " Spaceship Earth" metaphor, arguing that "No generation has viewed the problem of the survival of the human species as seriously as we have.", and that survival may require cutting back international aid
Living on a lifeboat by Garrett Hardin - The Garrett Hardin Society - Articles
Molecular Manufacturing and The High Frontier from the Foresight Nanotech Institute
Foresight Challenges - Development of Space
Sagan's rationale for human spaceflight Article about Carl Sagan and human spaceflight
The Space Review: Sagan's rationale for human spaceflight
Space and Civilization William E. Burrows's op-ed article from The Wall Street Journal
ARC Product 2
Back up civilization Robert Shapiro's response to Edges hypothetical request from the American President: "What are the pressing scientific issues for the nation and the world, and what is your advice on how I can begin to deal with them?"
Edge: THE WORLD QUESTION CENTER 2003
Alliance to Rescue Civilization Non-government organization founded by William E. Burrows, Robert Shapiro and others
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Space and Human Survival: My Views on the Importance of Colonizing Space Sylvia Engdahl's essay, links and books
Space and Human Survival (Sylvia Engdahl)
Open Directory - Science: Technology: Space: Colonization: Essays and Manifestos Links to reasons for space colonization
Open Directory - Science: Technology: Space: Colonization: Essays and Manifestos
Space Quotes to Ponder Quotes on why humankind must expand into space.
Space Quotes to Ponder
Spaceflight or Extinction Academics and other leaders explain that we should colonize space to improve our chance of survival. Authors include Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan.
Spaceflight or Extinction
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