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.

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

Paper by Nick Bostrom, analyzing well-known and less well-known extinction risks and related crippling hazards to humanity.

Thoughts on the enormity of the cosmos and the life cycle of civilizations, including our own.

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.

A physician warns that humans could go the way of the dinosaurs if they don't face up to the threat of killer viruses.

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.

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.