| Directory > Society > Future > Catastrophes > Human Extinction The Lifeboat Foundation: Human Rescue Service
Aims to build "lifeboats" in space to save the human race from extinction caused by the
advanced technologies that are predicted to be available in the year 2020.
http://lifeboat.com
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Beyond the Holocaust - Survival or Extinction?
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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Existential Risks
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
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Book: The End of the World - The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction
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 or the risk of disaster through
genetic engineering. Also covers philosophy and ethics. 1996
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415184479
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Salon - X Stands for Extinction
A physician warns that humans could go the way of the dinosaurs if they don't face up to the threat
of killer viruses.
http://www.salonmagazine.com/march97/news/news2970321.html
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Remarks on the Doomsday Argument
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
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Human Beings - And How They Became Extinct
A look at a number of ways that the human species might meet its end over the next number of
decades.
http://www.geocities.com/extinct_humans
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