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  • Chapter 13 - Unstoppable? Human Extinction

  • John J. Shea, State University of New York, Stony Brook
  • Book:
    The Unstoppable Human Species
    Published online:
    16 March 2023
    Print publication:
    23 March 2023, pp 276-289

  • Summary

    ch 13: This chapter considers whether Homo sapiens is as “unstoppable” as the Titanic was “unsinkable.” Reviewing scientifically credible threats to our species’ long-term survival, this chapter shows that some threats looming large in the popular imagination are actually extremely unlikely to cause human extinction. Actual threats to long-term human survival, such as meteor impacts and large-scale volcanism, garner far less attention than they deserve and they share a similar solution.