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Human extinction

Human extinction, or omnicide, refers to the possible ending of the human species, either by population decline due to singular natural events—for example, space irradiation, asteroid impact, or large-scale volcanism—or via anthropogenic destruction (self-extinction).

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Human extinction

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related to Risk estimates · 36
Human extinction → According, As, August, Bill Gates, Disaster Risk Reduction, Given, He, Henry Gee, Holger Bech Nielsen's, Humanity, If, In, January, Jean-Marc Salotti, John, Leslie, Leslie's, Mars, Metaculus, Moon
related to Post-Cold War · 30
Human extinction → British Astronomer Royal Sir, Cold War, Edited, Extinction, Fall, Global Catastrophic Risks, He, Henry Gee's, Human Empire, In, IPCC, John Leslie's, Leslie, Lewis, Lyle Lewis, Martin Rees, Milan, Money's, Nicholas, Nick Bostrom
related to history · 27
Human extinction → Age, Al-Ghazali, Ancient, Aristotle, Before, Charles Darwin, Christian, Darwin, Enlightenment, Georges Cuvier, Gerolamo Cardano, He, In On, It, Later, Lucretius, Marcion, Notably, Ockham, Origin
related to In fiction · 17
Human extinction → Aftermath, Alan Weisman, Grainville's, Jean-Baptiste Cousin, Le, Life After People, Mary Shelley's, Olaf Stapledon's, Other, Population Zero, Some, Star Maker, Steven Spielberg's, The Last Man, The World Without Us, Usually, When Worlds Collide
related to Atomic era · 11
Human extinction → Americans, Bayesian, Bertrand Russell, Brandon Carter, Doomsday, Gallup, In, Leo Szilard, Rachel Carson's, Silent Spring, The
related to Natural vs. anthropogenic · 11
Human extinction → Another, Based, Experts, Famously, For, Humanity, If, Moreover, Mt, The, Toba
related to Difficulty · 10
Human extinction → Antarctica, Any, Earth, In, McMurdo Station, Physicist Willard Wells, Some, South Pacific, The, Tibet
related to Voluntary extinction · 10
Human extinction → Benatar, Church, David Benatar, Euthanasia, Further, Some, Steven Best, The, Todd May, Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
see also · 7
Human extinction → ApocalypticismSocietal, ClockEschatologyExtinction, Earth, Effect, FilterHolocene, Human Extinction MovementWorld War, IIIPosthumanNeutron
related to Individual vs. species risks · 5
Human extinction → Alexander Vilenkin, Although, For, Joshua Knobe, Ken Olum

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Platoinstance ofAncient philosophers0.80text
Aristotleinstance ofAncient philosophers0.80text
and Lucretius wrote of the end of humankind only as part of a cycle of renewalinstance ofAncient philosophers0.80text
Al-Ghazaliinstance ofLater philosophers0.80text
William of Ockhaminstance ofLater philosophers0.80text
and Gerolamo Cardano expanded the study of logicinstance ofLater philosophers0.80text
probabilityinstance ofLater philosophers0.80text
began wondering if abstract worlds existedinstance ofLater philosophers0.80text
including a world without humansinstance ofLater philosophers0.80text
Human extinctionrelated to Atomic eraThe0.60section
Human extinctionrelated to Atomic eraIn0.60section
Human extinctionrelated to Atomic eraBertrand Russell0.60section

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