And people don’t seem all that bothered by the possibility.
Kristin Houser of Futurism –
Forget for a moment nuclear weapons, biological warfare, and the slew of other ways humanity could cause its own destruction.
If you take into account only naturally occurring phenomena — supervolcanic eruptions, asteroid impacts, and the like — researchers from the University of Oxford recently determined that the probability of our entire species going extinct in any given year is as high as one in 14,000.
