Human extinction | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: wikipedia tts
Date: 27/06/2019

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_extinction


00:01:17 1 Moral importance of existential risk
00:05:09 2 Possible scenarios
00:05:18 2.1 Severe forms of known or recorded disasters
00:08:38 2.2 Habitat threats
00:10:30 2.3 Scientific accidents
00:11:41 2.4 Further scenarios of extraterrestrial origin
00:12:19 2.5 Evolution of a posthuman species
00:13:31 3 Perception of and reactions to human extinction risk
00:13:43 3.1 Probability estimates
00:15:34 3.2 Psychology
00:17:10 3.3 Research and initiatives
00:18:45 4 Omnicide
00:19:31 5 Proposed countermeasures
00:20:22 6 In popular culture
00:21:11 7 See also



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SUMMARY
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In futures studies, human extinction is the hypothetical end of the human species. This may result from natural causes or it may be the result of human action. The likelihood of human extinction in the future by wholly natural scenarios, such as a meteorite impact or large-scale volcanism, is generally considered to be extremely low.For anthropogenic extinction, many possible scenarios have been proposed: human global nuclear annihilation, biological warfare or the release of a pandemic-causing agent, overpopulation, ecological collapse, and climate change; in addition, emerging technologies could bring about new extinction scenarios, such as advanced artificial intelligence, biotechnology, or self-replicating nanobots. The probability of anthropogenic human extinction within the next hundred years is the topic of an active debate.
Human extinction needs to be differentiated from the extinction of all life on Earth (see also future of Earth) and from the extinction of major components of human culture (e.g., through a global catastrophe leaving only small, scattered human populations, which might evolve in isolation).