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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.
www.hpn.org/beyond
- 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
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415184479
- Existential Risks - Paper by Nick Bostrom, analyzing well-known and less well-known extinction risks and related crippling hazards to humanity.
www.nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html
- 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.
www.geocities.com/extinct_humans
- Remarks on the Doomsday Argument - Are we underestimating the likelihood of human extinction in the next few decades? This is the position put forward by the philosophical Carter-Leslie doomsday argument. Highly philosophical and statistical.
www.anthropic-principle.com/preprints/inv/investigations.html
- The Earth Saving Project - A religiously oriented environmental project whose goal is to provide our world with the safeguard of a nuclear resistant plant and animal sanctuary.
www.earthsavingproject.org
- 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.
lifeboat.com
- X stands for eXtinction - A prominent physician warns that we could go the way of the dinosaurs if we don't face up to the threat of killer viruses. [Salon magazine - interview with author of "Virus X - Tracking the new Killer Plagues"]
www.salonmagazine.com/march97/news/news2970321.html
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