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i0Beyond the Holocaust - Survival or Extinction? - http://www.hpn.org/beyond/ - 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.
 
i0Book: The End of the World - The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415184479 - 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 environment or the risk of disaster through genetic engineering. Also covers philosophy and ethics. 1996
 
i0Existential Risks - http://www.nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html - Paper by Nick Bostrom, analyzing well-known and less well-known extinction risks and related crippling hazards to humanity.
 
i0Musing on Beginning and End - http://www.rationallink.org/beginend.htm - Thoughts on the enormity of the cosmos and the life cycle of civilizations, including our own.
 
i0Remarks on the Doomsday Argument - http://www.anthropic-principle.com/preprints/inv/investigations.html - 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.
 
i0Salon - X Stands for Extinction - http://www.salonmagazine.com/march97/news/news2970321.html - A physician warns that humans could go the way of the dinosaurs if they don't face up to the threat of killer viruses.
 
i0The Future Watch - http://www.thefuturewatch.com/ - The site intended to prevent the cataclysmic end-of-the-world scenarios caused by advancing technology. Articles, news and media references.
 
i0The Lifeboat Foundation: Human Rescue Service - http://lifeboat.com - 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.
 
i0The Universal Extinction Constant - http://www.extinctionthreat.com - The site author, Alan J Bessant, introduces his thesis and promotes understanding of the Universal Extinction Constant and Extinction Threat Level.
 
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