Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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), for example by sub-replacement fertility.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 10 December 2024. Predicted dates of the end of the world This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The Last Judgment by painter Hans Memling. In Christian belief, the Last Judgement is an ...
Permian–Triassic extinction event 252 Ma Large igneous province (LIP) eruptions [ 23 ] from the Siberian Traps , [ 24 ] an impact event (the Wilkes Land Crater ), [ 25 ] an Anoxic event , [ 26 ] an Ice age , [ 27 ] or other possible causes
Ceballos pointed to the extinction of the passenger pigeon, which was the only species in its genus, as an example of how losing a genus can have a cascading effect on a wider ecosystem. The bird ...
The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement was founded by Les U. Knight, [2] [3] [B] a graduate of Western Oregon University [5] and high school substitute teacher living in Portland, Oregon. [2] After becoming involved in the environmental movement as a college student in the 1970s, Knight attributed most of the dangers faced by the planet to ...
The a posteriori observation that extinction level events are rare could be offered as evidence that the doomsday argument's predictions are implausible; typically, extinctions of dominant species happen less often than once in a million years. Therefore, it is argued that human extinction is unlikely within the
For the record: 2:18 p.m. May 31, 2023: An earlier version of this story misidentified the plant that was neither growing nor deteriorating.It was Sequoia sempervirens, or coast redwood, not ...
A now-adult Murph finds her watch and is able to solve the equation that allows the human race to escape extinction. ... where mankind has to reckon with its place in the wider universe. I love ...