Posted on 08/24/2025 6:48:32 AM PDT by BenLurkin
In a game of Russian roulette with a standard Colt revolver, the chances of instant death are one-in-six.
Terrifyingly, that’s the same as the odds of humanity being wiped out within 75 years – everyone dead in a cataclysmic and total breakdown of civilisation, according to Oxford University futurologist Toby Ord, an expert on the threat of artificial intelligence.
Does it sound impossibly bleak? His colleague Nick Bostrom is more pessimistic still. He rates the possibility of human extinction by the next century as one in four.
Pulitzer prize-winning writer Jared Diamond is even less hopeful, predicting our species’ chances of survival beyond 2050 – just 25 years away – are no better than evens, or 50/50.
Not so long ago, only oddballs in sandwich boards and evangelical cult leaders seriously believed ‘the end of the world is nigh’. The phrase itself was a comic cliche, so gloomy it was funny.
But the voices now warning of our impending extinction come from highly respected scientists, not kooky doom-sayers. They point to multiple existential threats faced by the human race: not only nuclear weapons, but rampant climate change, artificially engineered viruses and even malevolent AI capable of manufacturing its own super-weapons.
(Excerpt) Read more at climatedepot.com ...
Seems this has been a prediction since before we were born.
The future’s uncertain and the end is always near.
They can’t give us the right weather but these idiots can predict this ,LOL
Cataclysmic breakdown of civilization is on track so far the way liberalism operates.
Utopia dreams result into horror facts.
With all the mounting evidence this morning of the true pandemic, this is not necessarily a bad thing.
Perhaps?
Can you even imagine being representative of or associated with an entity that has been heavily involved in directing society with its teachings, realizing you were so wrong and directly involved in the coming demise of civilization?
I would just say, “I’m sorry”.
> In the Gospel it is said no one knows. <
You’re right. Now and again someone will confidently predict the end. Are they all charlatans? Or are they just misinformed?
Anyway, the Bible is quite clear on this.
No one knows when that day or time will be. The Son and the angels in heaven don’t know when it will be. Only the Father knows.
- Matthew 24:36
> Don’t dwell on the end. Just always be ready. <
Well said.
Really. More like, “self-appointed experts.”
In 25 years? Could you please tell me what month and date? I am going to be throwing an ‘End of Humanity’ Party. I don’t want to do this at the last moment!! 😀
Another woefully ignorant person. The world has at the very least, another 1007years left IF Christ comes back today. If not, the wo4ld has a very long time to go as it awaits the end times.
Read your Bible professor
The end of the world is predicted by all three Abrahamic religions and no one seems to have an issue with that.
Haven’t heard much from Greta Thunberg lately on this topic.
Good, it’s time to “party hardy” until the end.
Quick!! Load him up with cash grants so he can solve the problem!
“Haven’t heard much from Greta Thunberg lately on this topic.”
She’s moved on to Jew hatred.
25 years?
So no need to pre pay on that new 30 year mortgage?
Paul Erlich was on a Carson rerun last night. Anyone remember that guy? In the 70s he predicted overpopulation would result in mass starvation and the end of humanity...or something like that.
Jared Mason Diamond (born September 10, 1937) is 87 years and he'll never live long enough to see he's wrong. How convenient...
Oxford has been wrong on everything starting with turning down Charles Haddon Spurgeon for Divinity School in the early 1800’s.
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