Curated List of Online Books, Articles, Collections, Bibliographies & Websites Related to all Opinions about Human Race Extinction:


Existential Risk FAQ Short answers to 11 common questions by Future of Humanity Institute

What's likely to cause human extinction – and how can we avoid it? by Stephen Luby

Confronting future catastrophic threats to humanity. Editors Seth D. Baum and Bruce E. Tonn 

Russell-Einstein Manifesto  by Max Born,  Percy W. Bridgman, Albert Einstein, Leopold Infeld, Frederic Joliot-Curie, Herman J. Muller, Linus Pauling, Cecil F. Powell, Joseph Rotblat, Bertrand Russell, and Hideki Yukawa  

Existential risk by the Effective Altruism Forum

Our Final Hour by Martin Rees

Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios and Related Hazards by Nick Borstrom

Defence in Depth Against Human Extinction: Prevention, Response, Resilience, and Why They All Matter by Owen Cotton-Barratt, Max Daniel, Anders Sandberg

Extinction: evolution and the end of man by Michael Boulter

Human Extinction by Michal H Hall

Precipice - Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity by Toby Ord 

The End of the World by John Leslie

Proceedings of the First Colloquium on Catastrophic and Existential Risk, edited by B.J. Garrick 

The Fate of the Species: Why the Human Race May Cause Its Own Extinction and How We Can Stop It by Fred Guterl 

Save the People!: Halting Human Extinction by Stacy McAnulty 

Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction by Annalee Newitz

Genetic enhancement, human extinction, and the best interests of posthumanity by Jon Rueda

Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority by Nick Bostrom

Human Extinction: A History of the Science and Ethics of Annihilation by Émile P. Torres

When Humans Nearly Vanished: The Catastrophic Explosion of the Toba Volcano by Donald R. Prothero

The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions by Peter Brannen

Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago - Updated Edition by Douglas H. Erwin

The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells 

Selfish Ape by Nicholas P. Money

Will Their Egos Drive Humans to Extinction?: Humans Are Seemingly Unable to Control Their Selves by David L. R. Stein 

Our Only Home: A Climate Appeal to the World by Dalai Lama and Franz Alt

The Fatal Species: From Warlike Primates to Planetary Mass Extinction by Andrew Y. Glikson

Asteroids! Solar Storms! Nukes! Climate Calamity! Killer Robots! by Washington Post

Ignoring global catastrophic risk threatens American national security by BreakingDefense.com

Our Cosmic Insignificance by Guy Kahane

The Psychology of Existential Risk: Moral Judgments about Human Extinction by Stefan Schubert, Lucius Caviola & Nadira S. Faber 

THINK 65: Preventing Human Extinction by P. Edwards

Preventing human extinction by Peter Singer

Are we doing enough to prevent human extinction? by Bryan Walsh

Philosophy and Ethics of De-extinction by Jay Odenbaugh

When it Comes to Human Extinction, We Could Be Our Worst Enemy and Best Hope Human extinction? It could happen, but it doesn't have to by Erin Carson

Preventing Human Extinction by Stanford Luby Lab

The Doomsday Lobby - Hype and Panic from Sputniks, Martians, and Marauding Meteors by James T. Bennett

Global Catastrophic Risks by Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Cirkovic

The End? Science, conservation, and social justice as necessary tools for preventing the otherwise inevitable human extinction? by Andrew J. Wright

Human Extinction and the Value of Our Efforts by  La Brooke Alan Trisel

Human Extinction from Natural Hazard Events by Anders Sandberg

An upper bound for the background rate of human extinction by Andrew E. Snyder-Beattie, Toby Ord & Michael B. Bonsall 

Will Humans Become Extinct? by Wonderopolis

We have a pretty good idea of when humans will go extinct by Christopher Ingraham 

When Will Humanity Finally Die Out? by Ryan F. Mandelbaum

X-Risk: How Humanity Discovered Its Own Extinction by Thomas Moynihan, see also

Existential Risk, Governance, Temporality and Reason by Anastasia G. Nesbitt 

Existential risk pessimism and the time of perils by David Thorstad

Existential risk and growth by Leopold Aschenbrenner

Existential Risk: Threats to Humanities Future  - a Bibliography - Oxford

On Becoming Extinct by James Lenman

Philosophy and Ethics of De-extinction by Jay Odenbaugh

Global Catastrophic Risks 2022: A year of colliding consequences by the The Global Challenges Foundation

Solar geoengineering by Janos Pasztor

Classifying Extinction Risks by Michael Anissimov 


The End of the World and Architecture by Michael A. Richards 

Global Risks Report 2023 by the World Economic Forum 

Problems in effective altruism and existential risk and what to do about them by Simon Knuttson

The world destruction argument by Simon Knuttson

The Timing of Labour Aimed at Reducing Existential Risk by Toby Ord

Controlling Planetary Movements: Displacement of Earth for Preventing Extinction of the Entire Existence of Life Because Increments of Solar Irradiance by Peiman Ghasemi

Would extinction be so bad? By Roger Crisp

We are potentially decades away from a mass extinction by Doug Gurr

The ethics of human extinction by Émile P Torres

Public perceptions of future threats to humanity and different societal responses: A cross-national study by Melanie Randle and Richard Eckersley

Stanford course on human extinction and cognitive biases strikes a chord with students in time of COVID-19 by Sandra Feder

Is Extinction Bad? by David Benatar. 

Permissible moderate paths to human extinction by Simon Knutsson

What’s Wrong with Human Extinction? by Elizabeth Finneron-Burns

Doomsday Needn’t Be So Bad by Travis Timmerman

A world without us by Walter Glannon 

A Good Exit: What to Do about the End of Our Species? by Toby Handfield

About the Badness of Existence and the Prospect of Extinction by Giuseppe Rocché 

On the survival of humanity by Johann Frick  

On the Wrongness of Human Extinction by Simon Beard and Patrick Kaczmarek 

Top Threats to Humanity & Existential Risks by Yuanxin (Amy) Yang Alcocer

The mother of all battles: Viruses vs humans. Can humans avoid extinction in 50–100 years? by Eleftherios P. Diamandis

Losing Species: The science behind extinction  By Stanford Earth Staff

Humans are doomed to go extinct by Henry Gee

Circling the drain: the extinction crisis and the future of humanity by Rodolfo Dirzo, Gerardo Ceballos, and Paul R. Ehrlich

How can we reduce the risk of human extinction? by Anders Sandberg, Jason G. Matheny, Milan M. Ćirković

Will humans wipe out humanity? Martin Rees

Human extinction by Wikipedia

What could drive humans to extinction? We might play a role in our own extinction. by Emma Bryce

Climate endgame: risk of human extinction ‘dangerously underexplored’ by Damian Carrington

What is the sixth mass extinction and what can we do about it by World Wildlife

What are mass extinctions, and what causes them? By Michael Greshko

Earth won't die as soon as thought: brightening sun will extinguish all life—but hundreds of millions of years later than predicted by Puneet Kollipara

Putting odds on humanity’s extinction by Carinne Piekema

Scientist says that humans are almost certainly going extinct: humanity might "already be a dead species walking." by Victor Tangermann

Humans will soon go extinct unless we can find 5 more earths by Tim Newcomb

What is mass extinction and are we facing a sixth one? by Tammana Begum

Preventing human extinction as a public health priority by Steven Luby

Will humans go extinct? For all the existential threats, we’ll likely be here for a very long time by Nicholas R. Longrich

Anyone nervous about human extinction? By National Association of Social Workers of North Dakota

Global catastrophic risk by Wikipedia

13 existential risks that have the potential to bring an end to humanity by Sam Shead

Existential risk and cost-effective biosecurity by Piers Millett, Andrew Snyder-Beattie

Assessing natural global catastrophic risks by Seth D. Baum

Four New Horsemen of an Apocalypse? Solar Flares, Super-volcanoes, Pandemics, and Artificial Intelligence by Ilan Noy, Tomáš Uher

Climate Endgame: Exploring catastrophic climate change scenarios by Luke Kemp, Chi Xu, Joanna Depledge, Kristie L. Ebi, Goodwin Gibbins, Timothy A. Kohler, Johan Rockström, Marten Scheffer, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Will Steffen, Timothy M. Lenton

Questioning estimates of natural pandemic risk by David Manheim

The human physiological impact of global deoxygenation by Daniel Martin, Helen McKenna, Valerie Livina

Reply to Kelman: The foundations for studying catastrophic climate risks by Luke Kemp, Chi Xu, Joanna Depledge, Kristie L. Ebi, Goodwin Gibbins, Timothy A. Kohler, Johan Rockström, Marten Scheffer, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Will Steffen, Timothy M. Lenton

Is human existence worth its consequent harm? by Len Doyal

Global policymakers and catastrophic risk by Christopher Nathan, Keith Hyams

Contemplating annihilation by Theodore Dalrymple

Catastrophic climate risks should be neither understated nor overstated by Matthew G. Burgess, Roger Pielke, Jr., Justin Ritchie

Reconstructing past species assemblages reveals the changing patterns and drivers of extinction through time by Lindell Bromham, Robert Lanfear, Phillip Cassey, Gillian Gibb, Marcel Cardillo

Human agency and global catastrophic biorisks by Piers Millett, Andrew Snyder-Beattie

The existential risk space of climate change by Christian Huggel, Laurens M. Bouwer, Sirkku Juhola, Reinhard Mechler, Veruska Muccione, Ben Orlove, Ivo Wallimann-Helmer

The tragedy of liberal democratic governance in the face of global threats by Eric Muraille, Philippe Naccache, Julien Pillot

The frailty puzzle: searching for immortality or for knowledge survival? by Stefano Govoni, Francesca Fagiani, Cristina Lanni, Nicola Allegri

Optimising peace through a Universal Global Peace Treaty to constrain the risk of war from a militarised artificial superintelligence by Elias G. Carayannis, John Draper

Addressing Biodisaster X Threats With Artificial Intelligence And 6g Technologies: Literature Review And Critical Insights by Zhaohui Su, Dean McDonnell, Barry L Bentley, Jiguang He, Feng Shi, Ali Cheshmehzangi, Junaid Ahmad, Peng Jia

The hopeless ape by David J Coffey

Exploring The Space Of Possibilities In Cascading Disasters With Catastrophe Dynamics by Arnaud Mignan, Ziqi Wang

The Human Cost Of Anthropogenic Global Warming: Semi-Quantitative Prediction And The 1,000-Tonne Rule by Richard Parncutt

Super-forecasting the ‘technological singularity’ risks from artificial intelligence by Petar Radanliev, David De Roure, Carsten Maple, Uchenna Ani

Doomsday preppers and the architecture of dread by Bradley Garrett

On resisting extinction: A review of Jonathan Schell's The Fate of the Earth by John A. Nevin

Definition of Runaway Greenhouse Effect by Wikipedia 

Climate Change & Longtermism: new book-length report by John G. Halstead 

Classifying global catastrophic risks by Shahar Avin, Bonnie C. Wintle, Julius Weitzdörfer, Seán S. Ó hÉigeartaigh, William J. Sutherland, Martin J. Rees

Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction by Jason Matheny

The case for taking AI seriously as a threat to humanity by Kelsey Piper

Reducing Global Catastrophic Biological Risks by Gregory Lewis

Fat-Tailed Uncertainty in the Economics of Catastrophic Climate Change by Martin Weitzman

Nuclear Winter: Global Consequences of Multiple Nuclear Explosions by Carl Sagan, R. Turco, O. Toon, T. Ackerman, and J. Pollack

Nuclear winter revisited with a modern climate model and current nuclear arsenals: Still catastrophic consequences by Alan Robock, Luke Oman, and Georgiy Stenchikov

Nuclear War and Climatic Catastrophe: Some Policy Implications by Carl Sagan

The Doomsday Machine by Daniel Ellsberg

ESA Near-Earth Objects Coordination Centre Risk List by the ESA NEO Coordination Centre (NEOCC) of ESA’s Planetary Defence Office (PDO) in the Space Safety Programme (S2P)

How NASA hunts the asteroids that could smash into Earth by Brian Resnick and Kavya Sukumar

An analysis and evaluation of methods currently used to quantify the likelihood of existential hazards by Simon Beard, Thomas Rowe, James Fox

Quantifying the Probability of Existential Catastrophe: A Reply to Beard et al. by Seth Baum

Global Catastrophic Risk Index by Arthur Dahl, Augusto Lopez-Claros, and John Miller

Four Global Catastrophic Risks – A Personal View by Russell Blong 

Global Catastrophic Risks by Open Philanthropy info@openphilanthropy.org

Reducing human extinction risks by informing the public debate info@existentialriskobservatory.org

Calamity Theory: Three Critiques of Existential Risk by Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods

Technological Wild Cards: Existential Risk and a Changing Humanity Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh

How governments can better understand global catastrophic risk by the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk

Nuclear War as a Global Catastrophic Risk by James Scouras

The world should think better about catastrophic and existential risks  by the Exonomist Magazine

Minimizing global catastrophic and existential risks from emerging technologies through international law by Grant Wilson

Space and Existential Risk: The Need for Global Coordination and Caution in Space Development by Chase Hamilton

The case for reducing existential risks by Benjamin Todd

Existential risk, AI, and the inevitable turn in human history by  Tyler Cowen

What’s the worst that could happen? Tackling existential risk by Andrew Leigh

Articles on Existential risk by The Conversation

Existential Risk and Existential Hope: Definitions by Owen Cotton-Barratt & Toby Ord

Existential risk and human extinction: An intellectual history by Thomas Moynihan

Lesswrong Tags Existential Risk

Andromeda–Milky Way collision by Wikipedia

Existential risks: a philosophical analysis by Phil Torres

Artificial General Intelligence: can we avoid the ultimate existential threat? Wim Naudé and Otto Barten

We're underestimating the risk of human extinction by Ross Andersen

Denial of catastrophic risks by Sir Martin Rees

A Step Forward in Mitigating Existential Threats by Divyansh Kaushik

On the Overwhelming Importance of Shaping the Far Future by Nick Beckstead

Global Catastrophic Risks Survey by Anders Sandberg and Nick Bostrom

'We’re going to be okay': humans not destined for extinction says former NASA chair by David Grinspoon

Dinosaurs, Dodos, Humans? By Nick Bostrom

A Primer on the Doomsday Argument by Nick Bostrom 

Homepage of Nick Bostrom  http://www.nickbostrom.com.  

Research page of Nick Beckstead

Where Are They? Why I Hope the Search for Extraterrestrial Life Finds Nothing by Nick Bostrom

Anthropic Shadow: Observation Selection Effects and Human Extinction Risks by Milan Cirkovic, Anders Sandberg & Nick Bostrom

How Unlikely is a Doomsday Catastrophe? by Max Tegmark & Nick Bostrom

Database of scientific articles, analysis, academic papers and institutional reports on topics related to collapsology by Collapsology

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