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Questions if people are underestimating the likelihood of human extinction in the next few decades, a position put forward by the philosophical Carter-Leslie doomsday argument. Highly philosophical and statistical. http://www.anthropic-principle.com/preprints/inv/investigations.html by Prof. John Leslie. The first comprehensive survey of potential catastrophes speculated upon by scientists, from comet and asteroid impacts to nuclear or chemical warfare, from ozone layer destruction to overpopulation and poisoning of the environment o http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415184479 Paper by Nick Bostrom, analyzing well-known and less well-known extinction risks and related crippling hazards to humanity. http://www.nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html Subtitled "A survival manual for humanity", this online book attempts to summarise problems threatening humanity's very survival, their causes and possible solutions to them. http://www.hpn.org/beyond/ |
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