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Extinction risk: The probability of human extinction within a given timeframe. Extinction threat: A plausible and significant contributor to total extinction risk. Societal fragility: The potential for smaller damages to spiral into global catastrophic or extinction risk due to societal vulnerabilities, risk cascades, and maladaptive responses.
In particular, at 3.2 °C (5.8 °F), 15% of invertebrates (including 12% of pollinators), 11% of amphibians and 10% of flowering plants would be at a very high risk of extinction, while ~49% of insects, 44% of plants, and 26% of vertebrates would be at a high risk of extinction.
Climate endgame is a term used to refer to the risk of societal collapse and potential human extinction due to the effects of climate change. [2] The usage of the term seeks to improve risk management by putting a higher priority on worst-case scenarios, to "galvanise action, improve resilience, and inform policy".
Canadian scientist William Rees believes that our insatiable appetite for natural resources will eventually kill our ability to survive.
A 2014 study published in Science asserts that the human population will grow to around 11 billion by 2100 and that growth will continue into the next century. [92] The 20th century saw a rapid increase in human population due to medical developments and massive increases in agricultural productivity [93] such as the Green Revolution. [94]
Nuclear war is an often-predicted cause of the extinction of humankind. [1]Human extinction or omnicide is the hypothetical end of the human species, either by population decline due to extraneous natural causes, such as an asteroid impact or large-scale volcanism, or via anthropogenic destruction (self-extinction).
Human population projections are attempts to extrapolate how human populations will change in the future. [2] These projections are an important input to forecasts of the population's impact on this planet and humanity's future well-being. [3] Models of population growth take trends in human development and apply projections into the future. [4]
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