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The Clock is Ticking
A weekly column on overpopulation, mass extinctions, global climate change, and pollution, seeking solutions to human behavior through anthropology, evolution, the social sciences, humanities, arts, and cognitive neuroscience.
http://clockticking.com/
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/preprin...
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/ris...
Musing on Beginning and End
Thoughts on the enormity of the cosmos and the life cycle of civilizations, including our own.
http://www.rationallink.org/beginend.htm
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 environment or the risk of disaster through genetic engineering. Also covers philosophy and ethics. 1996
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/041...
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2006