[PROCON]

The article didn't come right out and say it, so I will:

"Women, children and minorities hardest hit."

[A CA Guy]

Crashing asteroid, radiation from the sun getting through and baking us.
Of course the planet WILL outlive us.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Scientific American: “Most interesting Geophysical Event of the Decade”

[PROCON]

FYI

[Telepathic Intruder]

That’s a relief, because I don’t want to die in a car crash. Who is more likely to cause a nuclear war? Islamic fanatics. Who is most likely to case a pandemic? The Chinese. Who is most likely to cause climate change? If not nature, then the Chinese. But I know liberals all want to blame one group: white Americans.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

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.

That's not a statistic. It's a probabilistic prediction masquerading as a scientific "fact". The correct phrasing should be "If our model is correct,..." Mighty big if.

[Talisker]

“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.

Thirty thousand people die each year in car crashes.

There are no known deaths from any known extinction level events.

But hey, who needs logic for a civilization that gave up thinking long ago?

[BitWielder1]

Of course they had to mention Climate Change.
Seems you can't publish anything without those keywords nowadays.
It's very far down on my list of concerns.
Even if true, I have more faith in human adaptability than that.
But it did tell me right away the kind of article it was.

[Bubba_Leroy]

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.

[Rome2000]

The Rock and his wife have got us covered.

[xp38]

The probability of double negative headlines has just gone up.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The end is near. Or far. Who knows? Certainly not the author.

[StCloudMoose]

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

[Bob434]

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-

[exDemMom]

And according to a new report from the U.K.-based Global Challenges Foundation, they’re much more likely than we might think.

In other words, this is pure speculation based on absolutely no scientific evidence whatsoever. A think-tank is not a scientific research team.

[VTenigma]

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?

[MrEdd]

Have those “Doomed” guys shown up yet? I love those guys.

[Vermont Lt]

Damn. I’m going to stop paying my bills if things are this bad.

[TigersEye]

“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.

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.

[Trod Upon]

Big deal. We’re all gonna die anyway. If the species disappears 500 years after your own death, what of it?

[dsrtsage]

One or two degrees increase in global temperature will kill everyone on the planet from the equator to the poles