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 ...
We are all going to die!
In less than 125 years every man, woman and child now living on Earth will be dead!!
It’s Bush’s fault. Bush and those damned SUVs. Womyn and minorities will be hardest hit.
The Rock and his wife have got us covered.
I guess the answer is more government. </sarc>
In case of world wide nuclear war, I hope the very first nuke goes off 10 feet over my head....
The probability of double negative headlines has just gone up.
The end is near. Or far. Who knows? Certainly not the author.
Speak for yourself. I am planning on living forever. So far it has worked.
human-extinction will happen no matter what they do. the proof is in the history of this planet. everything in the water has survived or evolved. everything on land has become extinct. yearly animals, are becoming extinct and that is a fact. animals and insects are migrating
the less people, the more procreating will have to take place to build the population back up- I’m not really seeing a downside to this-
The homeless population in my area has exploded since Obama took office, but the local newspaper has never made a peep about it.
The minute Trump takes office the homeless will suddenly be discovered.
No one was wearing seat belts back then.
In 2012 the fate of humanity depended on John Cusack... how tough an apocalypse could it be?
There are numerous homeless in the median strips of major highway intersections, always begging.
Just anecdotal evidence, I don’t recall seeing anybody begging in the streets before Obama was president.
Major areas of downtowns of some cities I visit have big numbers of homeless too.
But the media have been silent about homelessness during the Obama years.
LOL, I did do a double-take on that headline too.
There are no “homeless” under Obama...Those are “urban campers”.....
It would be ironic if the Lone Survivor got run over by a wayward car. :-)
*Ahem* Bush's FaultTM
Lol. It is as if they are afraid to say it and have to hide it in double speak.
One of those Google cars, LOL.
True, but the article claims "likelihood."
Which is unwarranted... unless they know something...
Which reminds me, did you know that the Vatican owns and operates a giant telescope in Arizona named "Lucifer"?
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