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hristov on March 7, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: We're Underestimating the Risk of Human Extinction

Wow an entire article about human extinction without a single mention of global warming or climate change. The Atlantic are such reliable whores.

pjscott on March 8, 2012 [–]

We could totally survive any climate change that we've ever seen in the geological record. Even if famine claims billions of lives, it wouldn't be a species-ending event. Bostrom is worried about things that have considerably more destructive potential.

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