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    Human extinction or omnicide is the hypothetical end of the human species, either by population decline due to extraneous natural causes, such as an asteroid...
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    extinction, also referred to as the Anthropocene extinction or the sixth mass extinction, is an ongoing extinction event caused exclusively by human activities...
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    The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT) is an environmental movement that calls for all people to abstain from reproduction in order to cause the...
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    risk is a related term limited to events that could cause full-blown human extinction or permanently and drastically curtail humanity's existence or potential...
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    risk of extinction—all largely as a result of human actions. Twenty-five percent of plant and animal species are threatened with extinction. In a subsequent...
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  • though it still exists elsewhere. Local extinctions are contrasted with global extinctions. Local extinctions mark a change in the ecology of an area...
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    most scholars support at least a contributory role of humans in the extinctions. Major extinctions occurred in Australia-New Guinea (Sahul) beginning approximately...
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  • specific species extinguished by humans, as well as the ecologies surrounding prehistoric and near-present extinction events. The author received the Pulitzer...
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    Voluntary Human Extinction Movement and the Church of Euthanasia are well-known examples of social movements in favor of antinatalism and human extinction. Antinatalism...
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  • history, excluding major extinction events, including the current human-induced Holocene extinction. There have been five mass extinction events throughout Earth's...
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    The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, also known as the K–T extinction, was the mass extinction of three-quarters of the plant and animal...
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    Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S An extinction event (also known as a mass extinction...
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  • existential risk. Many AI experts have stated that mitigating the risk of human extinction posed by AGI should be a global priority. Others find the development...
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    known as the P–T extinction event, the Late Permian extinction event, the Latest Permian extinction event, the End-Permian extinction event, and colloquially...
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  • Functional extinction is the extinction of a species or other taxon such that: It disappears from the fossil record, or historic reports of its existence...
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    diseases from modern humans which Neanderthals had no immunity to, competitive replacement, extinction by interbreeding with early modern human populations, natural...
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    the end-Ordovician mass extinction or the Ordovician–Silurian extinction, is the first of the "big five" major mass extinction events in Earth's history...
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    to treat infertility in humans. However, it has usage as a viable option for de-extinction in cases of functional extinction where all remaining individuals...
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    The extinction symbol represents the threat of holocene extinction on Earth; a circle represents the planet and a stylised hourglass is a warning that...
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    from temporary economic disruption to human extinction. Many societal collapses have already happened throughout human history. Experts at the Future of Humanity...
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    Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The Late Devonian mass extinction, also known...
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  • Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT). He advocates for the voluntary cessation of human reproduction to gradually achieve the extinction of humankind...
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    Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic % Millions of years ago (H) K–Pg Tr–J P–Tr Cap Late D O–S The Triassic–Jurassic (Tr-J) extinction event...
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    activist. Their research focuses on eschatology, existential risk, and human extinction. Along with computer scientist Timnit Gebru, Torres coined the acronym...
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    The reasons for extinction range from natural occurrences, such as shifts in the Earth's ecosystem or natural disasters, to human influences on nature...
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    the human race to become extinct, Nick Bostrom argues that there is an overwhelming moral imperative to reduce even small risks of human extinction. Many...
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  • safe.ai. Retrieved 2024-03-18. "Artificial intelligence warning over human extinction – all you need to know". The Independent. 2023-05-31. Retrieved 2023-06-03...
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    This is a list of extinction events, both mass and minor:   "Big Five" major extinction events (see graphic) Marine extinction intensity during Phanerozoic...
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  • Extinction vortices are a class of models through which conservation biologists, geneticists and ecologists can understand the dynamics of and categorize...
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  • civilizational collapse caused by climate change would soon be followed by human extinction. Some researchers connect historical examples of societal collapse...
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