The Events That Could Kill Us All (and How We Might Prevent Them)

David Pescovitz, Boing Boing
Fri, 08/23/2019 - 12:49pm

Science journalist Bryan Walsh visited scientists from a variety of disciplines, devoured the scientific literature, and identified the catastrophic events most likely to kill us all. The list is a greatest hits of doom, from climate change and asteroid impact to bioengineered pathogens and supervolcanoes, which he wrote about this week in the New York Times.

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