Beyond the Holocaust - Survival or Extinction?
Subtitled "A survival manual for humanity", this online book attempts to summarise problems threatening humanity's very survival, their causes and possible solutions to them.
http://www.hpn.org/beyond/Book: The End of the World - The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction
by Prof. John Leslie. The first comprehensive survey of potential catastrophes speculated upon by scientists, from comet and asteroid impacts to nuclear or chemical warfare, from ozone layer destruction to overpopulation and poisoning of the environm
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415184479
Existential Risks
Paper by Nick Bostrom, analyzing well-known and less well-known extinction risks and related crippling hazards to humanity.
http://www.nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html
Remarks on the Doomsday Argument
Questions if people are underestimating the likelihood of human extinction in the next few decades, a position put forward by the philosophical Carter-Leslie doomsday argument. Highly philosophical and statistical.
http://www.anthropic-principle.com/preprints/inv/investigations.html
Salon - X Stands for Extinction
A physician warns that humans could go the way of the dinosaurs if they don't face up to the threat of killer viruses.
http://www.salonmagazine.com/march97/news/news2970321.html
The Lifeboat Foundation: Human Rescue Service
Aims to build "lifeboats" in space to save the human race from extinction caused by the advanced technologies that are predicted to be available in the year 2020.
http://lifeboat.com
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