Collapse

This brief article discusses the possibility of near-term human extinction (NTHE) and reviews the scientific evidence supporting the case that NTHE may come to pass.

From the article,

The combined effects of the exponential rise of global heating, paired with the chaotic and uncontrollable momentum of cascading positive feedback loops in the climate caused by crossing irreversible tipping points, are already driving global temperatures to a difference of geological proportions before the end of this decade.

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Just one major event could effectively eradicate the now fatally precarious conditions of human habitat on this planet and swiftly seal our fate into extinction.

The article addresses the following questions / points:

• Is near-term human extinction really possible?

• How soon is “near-term”?

• Is there any scientific research supporting the case for near-term human extinction?

• Where we are — a snapshot

• Sudden events likely to cause human extinction

• Scientists’ final warnings fall on deaf ears

• Final note on science and "certainty"

This is collapse-related because, with the rapidly approaching collapse of industrial civilization (considered by many to be the only realistic scenario we are looking at in the near-future), the possibility for near-term human extinction skyrockets.

We are locked into a trajectory of planetary annihilation and show no signs of slowing.

Further detail in providing an overview of our collective circumstance is continued in the article.