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This follows my journey to find and rank all of the biggest threats to humanity. Grab yourself the Map of Doom poster here:

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This year was the first experience we’ve had of a global disaster affecting every single person on Earth. And also how unprepared society was to deal with it, despite plenty of people giving warnings that this was going to happen at some stage.

But in the midst of all the doom I started to wonder, what other things could threaten humanity, that we are not thinking about? So I made the Map of Doom to list all the threats to humanity in one place.

But just finding them all is not enough. I wanted to find a way of comparing the risks of all of these disaster scenarios. So this video follows my attempt at doing that, and I think I’ve hit on a great way to visually compare all these dangers, which I haven’t seen anyone do before, so hopefully by the end of the video you’ll have a better idea about what the biggest threats are, and how they compare to this pandemic.

#existentialrisk #climatechange #DomainOfScience

--- References ----
Thanks to Kurtis Baute for climate change info: www.kurtisbaute.com
[1] 10 ways the world is most likely to end, explained by scientists
[2] Fifth of countries at risk of ecosystem collapse, analysis finds

[3] Global Catastrophic Risk

[4] Human Extinction

[5] Global Challenges Foundation (pdf)

[6] Deadliest Earthquake

[7] If all the plankton died

[8] Gamma ray burst


[9] Asteroid Impacts Death Risk

[10] West coast US earthquake probabilities

[11] How many people die of earthquakes per year?


[12] Most deadly Earthquakes in history

[13] Asteroid Impact Frequency and Risks


[14] Supervolcanoes

[15] Average frequency of supervolcanoes

[16] Climate change deaths per year



[17] Deaths due to climate change

[18] Global Carbon Emissions Per Year

[19] Estimating Future Death Tolls

[20] Frequency of Pandemics

[21] Worst pandemics in history

[22] Climate Tipping Points

[23] The richest 1% carbon emissions

[24] People killed by asteroids
[25] The London Beer Flood


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--- Credits ---
Music, art, and everything else by Dominic Walliman
Additional music: Higher Kiss by TrakTribe
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