Extinction means everybody dies. With 7 billion people on the planet I think that's a bit more than five times the likelihood of dying in a car crash. The author is dumber than moldy goat cheese.
Posted on 04/30/2016 2:25:39 PM PDT by PROCON
“A typical person is more than five times as likely to die in an extinction event as in a car crash,” says a new report.
Nuclear war. Climate change. Pandemics that kill tens of millions.
These are the most viable threats to globally organized civilization. They’re the stuff of nightmares and blockbusters—but unlike sea monsters or zombie viruses, they’re real, part of the calculus that political leaders consider everyday. And according to a new report from the U.K.-based Global Challenges Foundation, they’re much more likely than we might think.
In its annual report on “global catastrophic risk,” the nonprofit debuted a startling statistic: Across the span of their lives, the average American is more than five times likelier to die during a human-extinction event than in a car crash.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
And gays will become an endangered species.
In other words, this is pure speculation based on absolutely no scientific evidence whatsoever. A think-tank is not a scientific research team.
Great, something else to obsess with worry about. I need to get to my safe space pronto, were did I put that plush toy anyway?
You can write it. Read it to yourself. And report back to yourself. And argue about it all day long.
Have those “Doomed” guys shown up yet? I love those guys.
Damn. I’m going to stop paying my bills if things are this bad.
Extinction means everybody dies. With 7 billion people on the planet I think that's a bit more than five times the likelihood of dying in a car crash. The author is dumber than moldy goat cheese.
Tires lasted...what? Five thousand miles?
And many roads were still unpaved.
Big deal. We’re all gonna die anyway. If the species disappears 500 years after your own death, what of it?
The Vatican neither owns, nor built, nor named, nor nicknamed the telescopic instrument you reference. It belongs to the Max Planck Institute, was once nicknamed LUCIFER (from its acronym) but is now nicknamed LUCI.
This renders it less interesting to the overheated. They should take a minute and enjoy a tall glass of chill.
2012 was the better movie, maybe due to the humor. I’d watch it again just to see the Woody Harrelson ringside live-cast of a volcano going boom.
One or two degrees increase in global temperature will kill everyone on the planet from the equator to the poles
In 1955 the total amount of auto accident deaths was 36,688. The rate of deaths per 100,000 people was twice as high at that time than it is currently. That article you mentioned was way off the charts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year
The Bible says that unless Jesus shortened the days or comes back sooner than he otherwise would have all flesh would be gone. Long before atomic bombs The LORD knew what man would become capable of.
Matthew 24: 22: And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.
Check your premise.
Nearly all the critters that ever lived in the sea went extinct.
Just like on land.
Just wait until Chuthlu comes back!
There have been close calls in the past. One example is the theory that a volcano, Toba, erupted and damaged the atmosphere, causing a protracted “volcano winter” and reducing the earth down to 10,000 human breeding pairs.
And here we are, just 75,000+ years later, with over 7 billion humans on the planet.
How so?
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