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   Will humans ever be extinct?

   • Humanity has a 95% probability of being extinct in 7,800,000 years, according to J. Richard Gott 's formulation of the controversial doomsday argument, which argues that we have probably already lived through half the duration of human history.

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   Are humans heading for extinction?

   • Humans are inevitably heading for extinction. The question isn’t whether we go extinct, but when. Headlines often suggest this extinction is imminent. The threat of earth-grazing asteroids is a media favourite. Mars is regularly mooted as a bolt hole. And there is the ongoing menace of the climate emergency. Humans have vulnerabilities.

   Will humans go extinct? For all the existential threats, we’ll likely

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   What causes human extinction?

   • Nuclear war is an often-predicted cause of the extinction of humankind. Human extinction is the hypothetical end of the human species, either by population decline due to extraneous natural causes, such as an asteroid impact or large-scale volcanism, or via anthropogenic destruction (self-extinction), for example by sub-replacement fertility.

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   Is human extinction a 'existential catastrophe'?

   • In 2020, Oxford-based philosopher Toby Ord published a book called The Precipice about the risk of human extinction. He put the chances of “existential catastrophe” for our species during the next century at one in six. It’s quite a specific number, and an alarming one.

   Is there really a 1 in 6 chance of human extinction this century?

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   Do all species go extinct?

   • The short answer is yes. The fossil record shows everything goes extinct, eventually. Almost all species that ever lived, over 99.9%, are extinct. Some left descendants. Most – plesiosaurs, trilobites, Brontosaurus – didn’t. That’s also true of other human species. Neanderthals, Denisovans, Homo erectus all vanished, leaving just Homo sapiens.

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   Is human extinction a bad thing?

   • Some philosophers adopt the antinatalist position that human extinction would not be a bad thing, but a good thing. David Benatar argues that coming into existence is always serious harm, and therefore it is better that people do not come into existence in the future.

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2. www.scientificamerican.com › article › will-humansWill Humans Ever Go Extinct? - Scientific American

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   Mar 21, 2023 · Humans could be wiped out by a catastrophic asteroid strike, commit self-destruction with worldwide nuclear war or succumb to the ravages caused by the climate emergency.

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3. www.popularmechanics.com › science › environmentWhen Will Humans Go Extinct? Supercomputer Makes Bleak Prediction

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   Jan 18, 2023 · The results are bleak: the supercomputer says 10 percent of all plant and animal species will disappear by 2050, and 27 percent of vertebrate diversity will vanish by 2100. Yeah, that’s over a ...

4. theconversation.com › will-humans-go-extinct-forWill humans go extinct? For all the existential threats, we ...

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   May 5, 2020 · The short answer is yes. The fossil record shows everything goes extinct, eventually. Almost all species that ever lived, over 99.9%, are extinct. Some left descendants. Most – plesiosaurs ...

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6. theconversation.com › is-there-really-a-1-in-6Is there really a 1 in 6 chance of human extinction this century?

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   Human extinction is the hypothetical end of the human species, either by population decline due to extraneous natural causes, such as an asteroid impact or large-scale volcanism, or via anthropogenic destruction (self-extinction), for example by sub-replacement fertility.

8. sustainability.stanford.edu › news › whats-likelyWhat's likely to cause human extinction – and how can we ...

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   Feb 19, 2019 · Stanford epidemiologist Stephen Luby sees three potential outcomes for humanity by 2100: extinction, the collapse of civilization with limited survival, or a thriving society.

9. www.sciencealert.com › experts-predict-14-waysExperts Outline 14 Ways Humanity Could Drive Itself to ...

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   Nov 20, 2023 · New research led by a team from the University of Stockholm in Sweden outlines 14 different "evolutionary traps" that our global population could potentially be ensnared by, ultimately leading to our demise.