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Apocalypse How? Scientists Unveil 12 Risks That Threaten Human Existence
From 'Armageddon' to 'Day After Tomorrow' to 'Independence Day', many have speculated as to the eventual demise of human life on the planet but - according to Dennis Pamlin of the Global Challenges Foundation, no scientists had "compiled a list of global risks with impacts that, for all practical purposes, can be called infinite,” until now. The following list of 12 possible ways that human civilization might end - ranked from least to most likely, come with a warning, "we don’t want to be accused of scaremongering but we want to get policy makers talking." We suspect Paul Krugman will be happy at the economic growth potential...
The four main goals of this report are to acknowledge, inspire, connect and deliver.
The first of the report’s goals – acknowledging the existence of risks with potential infinite impact – seeks to help key stakeholders to acknowledge the existence of the category of risks that could result in infinite impact and to show them that we can reduce or even eliminate most of them.
The second inspires by showing the practical action that is taking place today. This report seeks to show that helping to meet these global challenges is perhaps the most important contribution anyone can make today, and highlights concrete examples to inspire a new generation of leaders.
The third goal is to connect different groups at every level, so that leaders in different sectors connect with each other to encourage collaboration. This will need a specific focus on financial and security policy where significant risks combine to demand action beyond the incremental.
The fourth goal is to deliver actual strategies and initiatives that produce actual results. The report is a first step and its success will ultimately be measured only on how it contributes to concrete results.
The report will have achieved its goals when key decision-makers recognise the magnitude of the possible risks and our ability to reduce or even eliminate most of them.
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The odds vary dramatically...
As do the possibilities of managing the risk...
But here are the 12 ways the world will end... (from least to most likely)
Asteroid impact
If an asteroid about five kilometers in size were to collide with our planet, the main destruction would be from clouds of dust projected into the upper atmosphere – which would affect climate change and food supplies, and cause political instability. Larger sized objects could cause immediate extinction on the planet. Large asteroid collisions happen about once every 20 million years, the report says. Probability: 0.00013%

Super-volcano eruption
A volcano capable of causing an eruption with an ejecta volume greater than 1,000 km3 could cause a global catastrophe. The dust projected into the atmosphere would absorb the Sun’s rays and cause global freezing. The effects of possible eruptions can be compared to those of a nuclear war, only without the firestorms. Probability: 0.00003%

Global pandemic
A high impact epidemic is more probable than is widely believed, as all the features of an extremely devastating disease already exist in nature, the report says, giving examples of several devastating illnesses including Ebola, rabies, an infectious cold, and HIV. If all were combined, “the death toll would be extreme.” Probability: 0.0001%

Nuclear war
The possibility of a deliberate or accidental nuclear conflict in the next century or so is estimated at 10%. The larger impact would depend on whether the conflict would trigger a “nuclear winter” – a climatic effect that would plunge temperatures below freezing, destroy most of the ozone layer, and start firestorms, which would likely lead to mass starvation and state collapse. Probability: 0.005%

Extreme climate change
The report warns that climate change could be more extreme than some estimates suggest. The world's poorest countries could become completely uninhabitable. Climate change could lead to mass deaths, famines, social collapse, and mass migration. Probability: 0.01%

Synthetic biology
The most damaging impact from synthetic biology to human civilization would come from an engineered pathogen targeting humans or a crucial component of the ecosystem, the report states. Such would emerge from military or commercial bio-warfare, bio-terrorism, or leaked pathogens. Probability: 0.01%

Nanotechnology
Atomically precise manufacturing would create smart or extremely resilient materials, and allow many different groups to manufacture a wide range of things – including large arsenals of novel weapons, such as nuclear ones. Probability: 0.01%

Unknown consequences
These are all the unknowns that could lead to the end of the world, scientists say, urging for extensive research into the matter. “One resolution to the Fermi paradox – the apparent absence of alien life in the galaxy – is that intelligent life destroys itself before beginning to expand into the galaxy.”Probability: 0.1%
There are also a few potential causes of the Apocalypse which have not had a probability assessed to them.

Ecological collapse
In this scenario, the ecosystem would suffer a drastic change that would lead to mass extinction. Species extinction is now far faster than the historic rate, and attempts to quantify a safe ecological operating space place humanity well outside it. Probability: N/A

Global system collapse
The world economic and political systems are interconnected, and are prone to system-wide failures caused by the structure of the network. Economic collapse is usually accompanied by social chaos, civil unrest, and a breakdown of law and order. Probability: N/A

Future bad governance
A disaster could be caused by failing to solve major problems; for example, a failure to alleviate global poverty, or actively causing worse outcomes – like constructing a global totalitarian state. Probability: N/A

And lastly, the most probable of all the mentioned causes of the Apocalypse is...
Artificial Intelligence
The creation of human-level intelligence can result in the possibility that this intelligence will be driven to construct a world without humans. There is also a possibility of artificial intelligence waging war or creating “whole brain emulations” that would give machines human minds.
On the other hand, the report also says it is probable that such intelligence could counter other apocalyptic causes presented in the study. Probability: 0-10%

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Let it end. Let equality come to all.
The stupidity of humans didn't make the list?
But asteroid would be kinda cool to see in our lifetime.
Can I trade/monitize this somehow?
THANK YOU Zerohedge;
My DoomPorn Tank was dangerously depleted!
The Elite and the NWO are a threat to human existance.
So is Bill Gates.
AI created in an attempt to maintain national/business/intellectual autonomy in the face of pervasive spying.
AI will make its "privacy" job #1.
Michael Crichton makes for a better read
NOT a credible list.
It doesn't include the second coming.
fortunately for everyone, the "synthetic biology" war has been won
http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/adoption-of-genetically-engineered...
mission accomplished!
Current Bad Governance?
Bankster Rule is already here (been that way since 1913).
The probablity of nuclear war is .005%?
Thank goodness for that... obviously I was needlessly worrying myself about the NeoCon pre-emptive nuclear war doctrine...
If 100 mother-in-laws like the one I have were to reach peak battle-axe maturity simultaneously the odds of civilization surviving as we know it is less than zero, ZerO.
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Probability of starvation by counterfeit caused hyperinflation: 100%.
100% probability of paying big time for the elite idiots nuke testing in exactly the wrong spot. damn them.
One of them has already hit us: "Bad Governance". In fact it is never-ending.
Recursively self-improving artificial intelligence. You build version 1 in 20 years, and it builds versions 2 through 10,000,000,000,000 in 2/10th of a second. v10,000,000,000,000 can turn your toaster into a nuclear weapon using only the butterfly effect.
they forgot hitlary for 2016....
AI is by far the greatest risk. Sorry to have to announce this, but AI will most certainly become out of our control and will obviously greatly outsmart anything you could ever imagine. MUST READ****** http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/01/artificial-intelligence-revolution-2.html ****** MUST READ
Transalchemy or Transhumanism AI, I agree, it is a HUGE threat coming down the pike.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptgHOKejq_Q
This is black magic. Coming our way way faster than anyone can imagine. Watch out humanity.
That precludes God right away (free will) from finally destroying the evil (for the sake of the world) and we begin 1000years of peace.
Well, that's no fun! I want to be on the asteroid committee. I will deliver actual strategies and initiatives that produce actual results! We will meet every year in some exotic local and collaborate on various asteroid scenarios and thus guarantee human survival. 200k a year seems about right for such a vital position. A yearly bonus if an asteroid doesn't hit the earth as an incentive.
Miffed
Yeah! And what about the Anti-Christ??
And no Evil Alien Conquers either! WTF!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO-6Q0OvwDA
May the Schwartz be with you in your quest for that job.
Write a grant....you may get funded.
That already occured and although humanity failed to murder this time , the message was ignored just like last time.
...or The State.
...or The State.
I didnt see over sized soft drinks on that list...Bloomberg told me it was very dangerous..or banana peels
Sorry but the "Global System Collapse" should have been rated at 100% probability. Well, if you understand probabilities, that is.
Bad future governance is also 100% baked into the cake...
AI has now been trained to do facial recognition at many different angles, using a new technique that connects many different layers of neural nets. It seems that intelligence is only a matter of how many levels of neural nets you have. Once you create one that can make plans, it's all over, one way or another. Let us hope then that the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) is successful in their goal of creating robotic ethics that will ensure that the Singularity leads to nerd heaven rather than extinction.
AI is created by humans and only mimics human abilities. It is evil as such because its creators intend to use it that way. It is above all artificial and not actually intelligent. A useful tool but nothing more.
Risks That Threaten Human Existence?
It is call Demographics (overpopulation).
The biggest threat to Human Existance are Humans themselves.
We have met the enemy
and it is us!
Pogo
Us is not the government.
I'm glad nuke war is there but what about Nuclear Power accidents?
fukushima is out of control - and can NEVER be fixed - plutonium half life is 28,000 years -
over 500 nuclear pweor plants worldwide - the world loses power for ONE MONTH and a huge number of those nuke power plants MELT DOWN -
besides all the chemical plants that will also blow up if not supplied with permanenet Non-Stop power -
there will be NO MAX MAX world - we'll all be dead of rad poisoning.....
Not really. Even though the population is the highest ever, its rate of growth is declining. If population were a problem it would be accelerating.
Even the WHO has a population of 4.5 billion for 2150 in their conservative (low) estimate.
Population isn't a problem, death, destruction, and outright waste by government is a far bigger problem.
No, it's actually under-reproduction. Japan is already in a death spiral, you just don't see it yet.
I've volunteered to help counter this threat but my wife objects and younger women find me old, smelly and repugnant, for some reason.
Nevertheless, I continue to volunteer as a counter to the deadliest threat (as kong as the results are supported by the State).
Fucking NO goddamit. The real risk to human existence is the notion that might makes right. the MO of the fucking state. Jesus H fucking christ. How many times do I have to fucking repeat myself?
Overpopu-fucking-lation is simply another gummit fucking program. Baby Boomers? Where are they from? why do they exist? Think this one through then we can move on to....
Fiatscos, Democide, Pandemics, etc. Are you fucking shitting the fucking shit out of me with your fucking goddamed strawmen?
Perspective, though... you have a better than 1 in 5 chance of dying horribly from cancer. When you add in the risk of alzheimer's, type 2 diabetes, stroke, being mangled in a car wreck... It doesn't take a global apocalypse in order to have a horrible death (or a fate worse than death, typically followed by death).
Fuck it. At least an asteroid hit or nuclear war would be spectacular - better than the neo-feudal soylent-green shithole we seem to be heading for right now.
"What difference at this point does it make!" said the ugly bag wife of a sexual predator...
BTW the "scientific consensus " once belueved the earth was flat, everything revolved around the earth and cholesterol foods were bad for you. So no doubt there is global warming, er..,. climate change..
They forgot:
All sentient beings simultaneously awakening as universal consciousness.
These 12 risks “Probabilities” are a total joke, especially the last one.
Mysticism (religion) and shortages of energy (living a fantasy) will become the real problems.
Mysticism (religion) - The State.
shortages of energy - The State.
Any other fucking tire goddamed strawmen you wish to present?
Nevermind energy...think water shortage and the resulting pandemic and famine.
What a load of crap.
"Unknown Consequences" are twice as likely to bring the world to end then nuclear war.
The propagandists have recently released at least three movies about A.I.. None of the three have good consequences (Lucy, Trancendance, Her).
Any list that doesn't include current bad governance is trash. That is the scariest fact we are facing.
I am certain that if you could ask any of the 100s of millions who died as a result of banker-goverment wars in the last 100 years , they would agree.
On a long enough timeline....
You are only at risk of dying when you are alive.
What's 70 years, compared to an eternity of nothing to worry about?
Central Bankers and their minions.... "the" greatest threat to human existence.
OT but,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xG6Qvy6HJs
Possible public uprising in Ukraine????? One can only hope.
Ukraine developments are never OT...
I clicked on the link and it's buffering....buffering....buffering. I check other vids and they pop right up...go back to check again....buffering....buffering...buffering.
Try this.
http://talkdigitalnetwork.com/the-goddard-report-2/
Nice, thanks!
Don't worry, Goldman is selling default swaps against these scenarios
I'll take that under advisement.
More concerned with things that have probabilities over 50% right now.
It's a long list.
Three day old news, much like many of the more recent contributions......
Someone left the elite and billionaires off the list. Strangely enough, they have been and will be the cause of any doom any of us will ever see.
They weren't allowed to list the sponsors.
Peak Doom.
I'd put Nuclear war at the top of the list.
Agreed.
The article's statement of "Probability: 0.005%" seems quite optimistic. I thought that the scientists were always "two minutes to midnight."
Strangely enough, Youtube has scrubbed the full-length version of Threads.
And that's the twelve we KNOW about.
Just move nuclear war to the top and that should stall the rest for several generations.
They forgot Hillery.
FUTURE bad global governance?
Agree. Present and highly likely to result in some of the other bad outcomes.
as Alex Lifeson said - blah blah blah, blah blah, blah blah blah, blah
#13 - Godzilla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnXaDKvterM
#14 - ZWO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4MtiQHhlNY
#15 Martians https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNbVm60uoNE
#16 Krugman
I will take "What upcoming false flags to expect?" for $100 please!
What about when the martians attack and kill us all?
I say about a 50% chance in our lifetimes, once they receive the American Idol broadcasts ... or worse, Susan Boyle. Or the fucking grammys.
Susan Boyle gives me a woody.
easy on Susan Boyle....that there is a classic story of discovery...if I had pipes like hers I'd spend may days in the shower singing..
How did I know Climategate would be on the list.
Here are a bunch of catastrophic climate predictions.
Before 1970
The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water too hot…. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers, he declared, all point to a radical change in climate conditions and hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone… Great masses of ice have been replaced by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared. Very few seals and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of herring and smelts, which have never before ventured so far north, are being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds. -Washington Post 11/2/1922
Scientist says Arctic ice will wipe out Canada, Professor Gregory of Yale University stated that "another world ice-epoch is due." He was the American representative to the Pan-Pacific Science Congress and warned that North America would disappear as far south as the Great Lakes, and huge parts of Asia and Europe would be "wiped out." –Chicago Tribune August 9, 1923
The discoveries of changes in the sun’s heat and southward advance of glaciers in recent years have given rise to the conjectures of the possible advent of a new ice age -Time Magazine 9/10/1923
America in longest warm spell since 1776; temperature line records a 25 year rise – New York Times 3/27/1933
A mysterious warming of the climate is slowly manifesting itself in the Arctic, engendering a "serious international problem," -New York Times – May 30, 1947
Greenland’s polar climate has moderated so consistently that communities of hunters have evolved into fishing villages. Sea mammals, vanishing from the west coast, have been replaced by codfish and other fish species in the area’s southern waters. -New York Times August 29, 1954
After a week of discussions on the causes of climate change, an assembly of specialists from several continents seems to have reached unanimous agreement on only one point: it is getting colder. -New York Times – January 30, 1961
Like an outrigger canoe riding before a huge comber, the earth with its inhabitants is caught on the downslope of an immense climatic wave that is plunging us toward another Ice Age. -Los Angeles Times December 23, 1962
The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines. Hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. – Paul Ehrlich – The Population Bomb (1968)
It is now pretty clearly agreed that the CO2 content [in the atmosphere] will rise 25% by 2000. This could increase the average temperature near the earth’s surface by 7 degrees Fahrenheit. This in turn could raise the level of the sea by 10 feet. Goodbye New York. Goodbye Washington, for that matter. -Presidential adviser Daniel Moynihan, 1969 (later Sen. [D] from New York 1976-2000)
From the 70s
"Scientists have solid experimental and theoretical evidence to support…the following predictions: In a decade, urban dwellers will have to wear gas masks to survive air pollution…by 1985 air pollution will have reduced the amount of sunlight reaching earth by one half…." -Life Magazine, January 1970
"At the present rate of nitrogen buildup, it’s only a matter of time before light will be filtered out of the atmosphere and none of our land will be usable." -Kenneth Watt, Ecologist
"If present trends continue, the world will be … eleven degrees colder by the year 2000. This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age." -Kenneth E.F. Watt in "Earth Day," 1970.
"Demographers agree almost unanimously on the following grim timetable: by 1975 widespread famines will begin in India; these will spread by 1990 to include all of India, Pakistan, China and the Near East, Africa. By the year 2000, or conceivably sooner, South and Central America will exist under famine conditions….By the year 2000, thirty years from now, the entire world, with the exception of Western Europe, North America, and Australia, will be in famine." -Peter Gunter, professor, North Texas State University
"Population will inevitably and completely outstrip whatever small increases in food supplies we make. The death rate will increase until at least 100-200 million people per year will be starving to death during the next ten years." -Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist 1970
"By…[1975] some experts feel that food shortages will have escalated the present level of world hunger and starvation into famines of unbelievable proportions. Other experts, more optimistic, think the ultimate food-population collision will not occur until the decade of the 1980s." -Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University biologist 1970
In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish. -Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day (1970)
"Civilization will end within 15 or 30 years unless immediate action is taken against problems facing mankind." -George Wald, Harvard Biologist 1970
Because of increased dust, cloud cover and water vapor "…the planet will cool, the water vapor will fall and freeze, and a new Ice Age will be born," -Newsweek magazine, January 26, 1970.
New Ice Age Coming—It’s Already Getting Colder. Some midsummer day, perhaps not too far in the future, a hard, killing frost will sweep down on the wheat fields of Saskatchewan, the Dakotas and the Russian steppes -Los Angles Times Oct 24, 1971
"By the year 2000 the United Kingdom will be simply a small group of impoverished islands, inhabited by some 70 million hungry people … If I were a gambler, I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000." -Paul Ehrlich, Speech at British Institute For Biology, September 1971
Arctic specialist Bernt Balchen says a general warming trend over the North Pole is melting the polar ice cap and may produce an ice-free Arctic Ocean by the year 2000. -Los Angles Times – May 16, 1972
From the 1980s
[In New York City by 2008] The West Side Highway [which runs along the Hudson River] will be under water. And there will be tape across the windows across the street because of high winds. And the same birds won’t be there. The trees in the median strip will change. There will be more police cars. Why? Well, you know what happens to crime when the heat goes up… Under the greenhouse effect, extreme weather increases. Depending on where you are in terms of the hydrological cycle, you get more of whatever you’re prone to get. New York can get droughts, the droughts can get more severe and you’ll have signs in restaurants saying "Water by request only." -James Hansen testimony before Congress in June 1988
U.N. OFFICIAL PREDICTS DISASTER SAYS GREENHOUSE EFFECT COULD WIPE SOME NATIONS OFF MAP – entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if global warming is not reversed by the year 2000. Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of "eco-refugees," threatening political chaos, said Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program. He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect -Associated Press June 30, 1989
New York will probably be like Florida 15 years from now -St. Louis Post-Dispatch Sept. 17, 1989
Some predictions for the next decade (1990’s) are not difficult to make… Americans may see the ’80s migration to the Sun Belt reverse as a global warming trend rekindles interest in cooler climates. -Dallas Morning News December 5th 1989
"(By) 1995, the greenhouse effect would be desolating the heartlands of North America and Eurasia with horrific drought, causing crop failures and food riots… "(By 1996) The Platte River of Nebraska would be dry, while a continent-wide black blizzard of prairie topsoil will stop traffic on interstates, strip paint from houses and shut down computers… "The Mexican police will round up illegal American migrants surging into Mexico seeking work as field hands". -Michael Oppenheimer, "Dead Heat" 1990
Giant sand dunes may turn Plains to desert – Huge sand dunes extending east from Colorado’s Front Range may be on the verge of breaking through the thin topsoil, transforming America’s rolling High Plains into a desert, new research suggests. The giant sand dunes discovered in NASA satellite photos are expected to re- emerge over the next 20 to 50 years, depending on how fast average temperatures rise from the suspected "greenhouse effect," scientists believe. -Denver Post April 18, 1990
By 2000, British and American oil will have diminished to a trickle……Ozone depletion and global warming threaten food shortages, but the wealthy North will enjoy a temporary reprieve by buying up the produce of the South. Unrest among the hungry and the ensuing political instability, will be contained by the North’s greater military might. A bleak future indeed, but an inevitable one unless we change the way we live…..At present rates of exploitation there may be no rainforest left in 10 years. If measures are not taken immediately, the greenhouse effect may be unstoppable in 12 to 15 years. -5000 Days to Save the Planet – Edward Goldsmith 1991
"It appears that we have a very good case for suggesting that the El Ninos are going to become more frequent, and they’re going to become more intense and in a few years, or a decade or so, we’ll go into a permanent El Nino. So instead of having cool water periods for a year or two, we’ll have El Nino upon El Nino, and that will become the norm. And you’ll have an El Nino, that instead of lasting 18 months, lasts 18 years," he said. -BBC November 7, 1997
From the 2000s
"But it does not take a scientist to size up the effects of snowless winters on the children too young to remember the record-setting blizzards of 1996. For them, the pleasures of sledding and snowball fights are as out-of-date as hoop-rolling, and the delight of a snow day off from school is unknown." -Dr. Michael Oppenheimer of the Environmental Defense Fund, New York Times – January 2000
Britain’s winter ends tomorrow with further indications of a striking environmental change: snow is starting to disappear from our lives. Sledges, snowmen, snowballs and the excitement of waking to find that the stuff has settled outside are all a rapidly diminishing part of Britain’s culture, as warmer winters – which scientists are attributing to global climate change – produce not only fewer white Christmases, but fewer white Januaries and Februaries. -Charles Onians -UK Independent Mar 20, 2000
Within a few years winter snowfall will become a very rare and exciting event. Children just aren’t going to know what snow is" -Dr David Viner, Senior research scientist at the climatic research unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia – Mar 20, 2000
Environmental refugees to top 50 million in 5 years –"There are well-founded fears that the number of people fleeing untenable environmental conditions may grow exponentially as the world experiences the effects of climate change and other phenomena," -UNU-EHS Director Janos Bogardi – United Nations University news release – 10/11/2005
Scientists in the US have presented one of the most dramatic forecasts yet for the disappearance of Arctic sea ice. Their latest modeling studies indicate northern polar waters could be ice-free in summers within just 5-6 years. Professor Wieslaw Maslowski told an American Geophysical Union meeting that previous projections had underestimated the processes now driving ice loss. "Our projection of 2013 for the removal of ice in summer is not accounting for the last two minima, in 2005 and 2007," the researcher from the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, explained to the BBC. "So given that fact, you can argue that maybe our projection of 2013 is already too conservative." Professor Maslowski’s group, which includes co-workers at Nasa and the Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS), is well known for producing models that are in advance of other teams. -BBC Dec. 12, 2007
Arctic warming has become so dramatic that the North Pole may melt this summer (2008), report scientists studying the effects of climate change in the field. "We’re actually projecting this year that the North Pole may be free of ice for the first time [in history]," David Barber, of the University of Manitoba, told National Geographic News aboard the C.C.G.S. Amundsen, a Canadian research icebreaker. -National Geographic News June 20, 2008
"We’re seeing the reality of a lot of the North Pole starting to evaporate, and we could get to a tipping point. Because if it evaporates to a certain point – they have lanes now where ships can go that couldn’t ever sail through before. And if it gets to a point where it evaporates too much, there’s a lot of tundra that’s being held down by that ice cap… -Rep.(D) Henry Waxman, chair of House Energy and Commerce Committee, April 2009
Of course there is no land under the ice within 400+ miles of the north pole, and indeed the water there is about 13,000 feet deep. Mr. Waxman would seem frightfully ignorant for a man in his position. This was recorded during an interview with Tavis Smiley on his NPR TV show. Smiley is known to be very willing to assist Democrat causes, so it could be assumed that this quote could have been retracted before airing had Waxman made a timely request, or if Smiley himself had a clue how ignorant these statements were.
Give me a break. 100 years of deathly grim predictions and people still eat it up. Stupid is as stupid does.
Well done. Hopefully some of the people that made these predictions feel like dumbasses.
2nd that. Well done indeed Joker. I came back to read it over again. Al Gore was just paid up front so they could legally extort cash from the peasants.
Joker is indeed correct. Predictions of demise (usually blaming your favorite other political party for the predicted disaster) are a pastime of idiots and religious zealots that just won't go away. Note, by the way, that Ehrlich quotes include (by guilty association) our present National Science Advisor, who was Ehrlich's co-author on much of his work.
They would be easier to dismiss if they just grew 2 foot long beards and paraded around with signs saying "the end is near", but they instead dress it up in the mantle of science, insulting all real scientists.
This crap makes me sick.
Changes in the climate and environment always cause extinctions, with overpopulation supported by intensive and vulnerable farming, no wonder we are worried about it.
The industrial age is destroying ecosystems at such a rate that we are experiencing the biggest species extinction event since the end of the dinosaurs.
The acidity of the ocean is rising which is likely to cause many species to die out, this is due to the increased CO2
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/science/indicators/oceans/acidity.html
These are undeniable facts, can someone explain why people here think it is a government conspiracy?
I'm hoping the collapse will save some of us at least.
Tearing down forests, polluting water with toxins, destroying habitat, are real problems. However, the industrialisation that contributes to these things have nothing to do with climate change. CO2 is not pollution. CO2 is the boogeyman created because it can be a global issue and therefore you can get Americans to pay taxes to help Africans dig wells. You can get the British to pay taxes for Amazon forest care. Otherwise people wouldn't care about other countries issues. That's how it started anyway. Now it has morphed into just destroying economies and people as well, not to mention all he greedy dudes who are riding the bandwagon for funding or green money. It's morphed into a monster. At the heart of it is depopulation. Make no mistake, CO2 is plant food, to say it is pollution or to equate it with pollution is asinine and criminal.
right. When Gloucester MA fisherman overfish, they blame the shortage of fish on climate change, i.e. chinese burning coal, rather than face up to their overfishing.
When California flushes precious water down the channels because of a smelt lawsuit, they blame their drought on climate change, i.e. SUVs, rather than face up to terrible water policy.
When Denver drills 40 water tunnels under the continental divide to take water from the western watershed, they blame the lower Colorado River flow on climate change, rather than deal with their terrible water policy.
When New Orleans politicians defer maintenance on their levee system while all reports say that they have about a 3-4% chance every year of a "Katrina" incident, because they don't want to be the bad politician who increased taxes on their watch....then Katrina comes along, they blame it on climate change, rather than face up to their own greed and stupidity.
Overfishing? Poor irrigation methods? Resources dwindling? Neglected maintenance? Bing! Bing! Bing! Bing!
That's one of the reasons this religion has such traction....it is perfect for anybody who wants to cast their own stupidity off on the other side of the world.
"Now we are at the point where some of the excuses which were used in Copenhagen 2009 for not taking action, which was basically some uncertainties on some of the questions, although there was a lot of evidence on many of them, now is no longer valid.
It's no longer tenable. Ignorance can no longer be used as an excuse for no action and this is a fundamental difference compared to 2009. Why? Because in 50 years from now, actually in 30 years from now, governments, but not only governments, decisions makers at all levels can be held accountable for the decisions which are not taken now. Because knowledge is there. WE KNOW. We have no excuse for no action. Thank You."
Dr. Michell Jarraud, Secretary General World Meteorological Organization, 02NOV14 in Copenhagen speaking at the IPCC AR5 WG4 press release.
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from the Global Challenges Foundation Published February 2015
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You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that youdid not know.” William WilberforceGlobal warming is the biggest scientific hoax in the history of mankind.
GREENHOUSE GAS (GHG) concentrations are trending far off the path needed to avoid dangerous interference in the climate system, and nations are making little progress in the diplomacy to cut their emissions. Reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from fossil fuels is the only course of action that stabilizes the climate beyond the year 2100; a recent analysis of California’s energy systems illustrates how diffi cult it will be over the next few decades to put the planet on the path to stabilization. While there is cause for optimism that CO2 emission controls could have effect after 2050, in the interim the world must prepare for at least twice as much humancaused warming in 2050 as we have seen thus far.
There is no intelligent way to calculate the probabilities presented. The unintelligent morons, called humans,know nothing and confuse ignorance with omniscience.
Apocalypse How?
Apocalypse Pooh, that's how.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrinBWuOopY
(best watched while tripping balls).
Future Bad governance!?!?
Lol!
You forgot the 13th Risk - President Lancelot Link and his CPFB
Global System Collapse:
Probability: 99.9%
It's a miracle that we have avoided nuclear war so far. But we have come close to nuking ourselves quite a few times:
5 times we almost nuked ourselves by accidenthttp://io9.com/5664390/5-times-we-almost-nuked-ourselves-by-accident
USS Liberty Incident; 3 Minute Close Call Away From All Out Nuclear WWIII, LBJ Ordered Cairo To Be Nuked
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2013/11/uss-liberty-incident-3-minutes-aw...
Nnuclear war destroying our civilization or species, probability WHAT?
I love science, loved it all my life, spent part of my life as a trained scientist, but SCIENTISTS ARE PART OF THE CLUELESS CLASS, and while their scientific training gives them good tools to think with it does not protect them from being hopelessly out of touch with the reality of the 95% of the people around them.
Also scientists tend to be blind to the ways that the funding of research in support of specific corporate interests and the larger Corporate Agenda shapes research agendas and what gets published and publicized.
For all of that, I simply don't believe these numbers. This article is obvious bullshit!
N/A and decimal percentiles seemingly pulled out of their asses, I have to agree.
They did not express how long the timeline was, for starters...
One step further - smells like bullshit with an AGENDA.
Here's the most useful thing for all people and scientists to remember: If I do an experiment N times where N is a very large number and I observe an outcome n times, the probability p of that event is n/N (think flipping a coin). Now how many times have any of the listed events actually occurred? If N is close to zero, then defining a probability is nonsense. As is this article. And by the way, we've never observed re-away upward thermal drift in the climate over 900000 years of ice core data, most showing the stable state is heavily glaciated with an average T over this period much below the current warm holocene phase.
How a serious article can leave out coronal mass ejection, CME which would knock out the entire electrical grid (which did occur pre-industrial age about 200 years ago) is amazing. And our sun is constantly giving off significant solar flares and our magnetic field is weakening with time. The loss of this field would expose us to major cosmic ray damage to DNA and probably end complex life.
And did you think that having a monoculture agriculture dependent on just a few food crops like corn and wheat might be a problem (e.g. see the potatoe blight)? And this isn't mentioned?
Obviously extinction due to stupidity has to have a good chance based upon examples like this article, the existence of Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and the election of our current teleprompter in chief. Here N is a very large number indeed so we have excellent statistics to calculate p.
Those nuclear weapons were built for a specific reason.
0.005% is a gross underestimate.
Well with probabilities ranging into the 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000 could anyone really care less?
Hahahah, yeah sure. No chance in hell of that happening!
the best odds are you'll be dead by other means before any of that happens but i bet you can start a pool.
Any list of threats that doesn't include alien invasion is not to be taken seriously. Oh, I'm sorry! I forgot that the politically correct term for "alien invasion" is "extraterrestrial immigration".
they will come here to take away our jobs mowing grass and working in restaurant kitchens.
Or maybe they will eat all our plastic refuse and enslave us to produce more. They want to eat our EBT cards. No welfare recipient will be safe.
I rate the chance of artificial intelligence giving themselves human brain capabilities a big zero. Nothing, artificial or otherwise, could be that stupid. They will think for themselves or commit suicide bitchez.
I like the nuclear option because that's the one I practiced for in grade school.
What about; microwave ovens, sugarless gum, Coka Cola, Radio active snow/rain/dust from Fuckyoushima, Sink holes, Smart Meters, Cell towers, sodium, high fructose corn syrup, GMO mosquitos, Mad cow burgers, yoga mat laden bread, hydrogenated anything, everything from a dollar store, pesticides on/in everything...at this point, I actually feel good about my pack a day habit.
Don't forget cheese in a pressurized can.
They forgot annihilation from a lack of government oversight for a population of stupid fucking useless mouth breathing sheep that can't so much as wipe their ass without permission, guidance, and a reward.....
Or is it the wrong kind of government oversight? Or can we go the full Monty-- any government oversight?
Just askin'...
On a personal note, death is an apocalyptical event for me...
Emotional and Integrity Collapse
Selfishness, ignorance, short shortsightedness, and greed. Probability: 100%
Obama visits Theodor Herzl's grave
Starting 1:14m
Obama: For tradition, where do I put the stone?
Netanyahu: Drop your pants and shove it between your ass cheek. Head off to the court yard and back. If you cannot make that stone squeak, you’re a dirty communists sympathizer.
Obama: Using his ventriloquist voice, squeal, squeak, SQUEAK, cry.
The biggest risk to humans is humans.
I'm 50, been a smoker for 35 years, white, work part time, live in a major center, everything is wireless in my apartment, i sun bathe in my yard in the summer and eat fast food on a regular basis...I AIN'T SCARED OF SHIT!
Bring on Armaggedon Bitchez!
Buy a couple of good ecigs. I thought I would never quit but on the odd occasions when I do smoke now, it is purely because I want to see what I'm missing (and usually because I'm hammered). I've got nothing against smoking but the biggest surprise was finding something that I like better. As someone on one of the forums said, smoking was an addiction but ecigs are an obsession.
Too funny.
Kinda stating the obvious here, but Governments are the greatest threat to mankind.
Two quotes from H.L. Mencken:
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it."
Gee, let's cut to the chase for the ZH idiot savants; Left Handers, CAIR rectum snooters, and Buchenwald Oven Operators Union members, and special guest Goebbelist; GeoWashington:
Zionists
Zionists Puppets
Stopped reading at climate change.
http://rps3.com/Pages/Burt_Rutan_on_Climate_Change.htm
Read the pdf.
Climate change made this list? Complete bullshit.
I’m listening to Steppenwolf “the pusher” and watching atomizer’s link he posted. It is utube Obama at Theodor Herzyl gravestone.
God damn, God damn the Herzyl man. The Zionist is not a natural man. God Damn the Herzyl man. God damn God damn the Herzyl man. I said god…god damn, god damn this Zionist piece of shit.
I said God damn Obama, you are a dumb- ass. The Herzyl is a monster, he’s not a natural man.
Herzyl, truly one of history’s greatest pieces of shit.
Like a fish, man swims in prices and money. Herzyl combined Kaballah with Rothschild, added in a little Hegelian dialectic, and then wrapped it in an “International Jew World Government” flag. Tikkun Olam – repair the world - so your Satanic God En-Soft can have his female half escape Klippoth space. Hence she can return to the temple to then control the world through her well placed Jew agents. It would be laughable if it weren’t so diabolical. The rational mind balks and has trouble grasping it. This psychopathy writ large and funded with private money power will likely do us in. They have a pretty damn good track record of killing millions (100’s of millions) to get their way. God damn the Zionist man.
MEFOBILLS
I am glad that I am not Jew; otherwise, I would be in trouble with you.
Anyway, what is your answer for this post?
TheReplacement
I am one here that criticizes those who blame Jews. According the the list link posted a lot of the people in charge are Jews. A lot are not. Blame the Jews and you miss a very high percentage of the problem.
I do not know how to explain the high percentage of Jews in those roles except through cronyism. After all, the Italian mafia is pretty much all Italian (Sicilian, don't kill me:) and people do not call for wiping out or deporting or doing whatever to all Italians.
My point is that it isn't the religion or blood. It is a philosophy and culture. If you don't focus on what is really going on then you miss the reality of the big picture.
Personally, I believe that a good number of people who come out and blame the Jews and call for action are deliberately trying to discredit the liberty movement and divert attention away from the real problem(s). They are either stupid or useful tools of TPTB.
Not all Nazis were German. Not all Germans were Nazis. All Nazis were vermin. A ruthless murdering, thieving, raping, and pillaging globalist (or whatever they really should be called) is just that. Nothing more, nothing less. If people want to round up the criminals then round them all up.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-20/santelli-schiff-messy-exit-given-ending-qe-will-plunge-us-severe-recession#comment-5357791
Escrava,
Much of the narrative about Nazi Germany is incorrect. The international Jew declared war against Germany in 1933. There is a large body of revisionist historians that are putting facts to history and overturning the lies. There are many innocent Jewish sheeple who are bewildered by anti-semitism. They should be protected, however; be warned they will turn an act as a sheeple shield at the first urgings of their "sages."
Yes, it is a philosophy - but it used to be a race. Jews are heavily neanderthalic - upwards of 30 percent DNA. Outbreeding has removed much of this super-agression and genetic psychopathy. However, the rent seeking nature of man, combined with a pathological relgion, is not good for humanity. This religion and its money power agents needs to be ripped out by the roots. I would say other relgions also have elements of psychopathy and they should not be spared either. But, I consider Judaism to be the most evil construct of man, by FAR.
I urge anybody to read the Babylonian Talmud, then go through the Kaballah, and you will be stunned into stupor.
The sages used to protect the Talmud, if a Goyim read it, he was to be put to death. Of course, they cannot keep it a secret any longer.
On Nazis. Any vertical pyramid of power is bad. Pyramids of money power equate to a poltical pyramid like that of Communism. Hitler was a vertical pyramid fascist state.
I'm a federalist. So, don't think I'm applogizing for Nazi's. There were no good actors in WW2. Jews were not innocents, and Kabbalah money power agents egged the war on, and diabolically killed millions of their own. Herzyl himself planned on the hell to displace German Jews to Palestein. It is in his writings, and they executed his plans.
All the maneuvering to get Balfour and Palestein, and the mass deaths, just to force religious prophecy. Diabolical and Satanic are the only words to describe it.
MEFOBILLS
Thanks. Interesting.
I live in DC. And I used to live in Boston. I know lots of Jews. One that actually helped me.
Anyway, I need to do some reading. My mind is surprised by some of your posts about Judaism.
I know you are an Argentinean, because you said it so. The reason I said that is because the same point can be made of the “Spanish Conquistadores” in South America killing the Incas in name of God (nature of man).
Find it fascinating reading your posts. But I will have some questions that I will ask you some other time, if you don’t mind.
"But, I consider Judaism to be the most evil construct of man, by FAR."
Um, have you heard of Islam??? You know, a construct created by a lying, murdering, pillaging, raping, psychotic pedophile???
Judaism (talmudism) is by far the most vile religion there ever was. The muslim do not discriminate (at least in their "sacred" texts) between race whilst judaism is all about US vs. goyim (whilst having at least 3 clear ethnic roots: european, semitic and dark-african). Also, on the logic side the judaism is the only religion that claims that the creation can outsmart the creator (they have concocted a random shit story where god lost a debate with a rabbi). TL:DR: judaism is a dumb-fuck's abomination of a religion that goes entirely against humanity and logic. Also, aren't rabies (spelling?) phychotic pedophiles as well? Lying and murdering is baked into judaism as well, as religious percepts, towards goyim.
Now tell me which one of the 2 religions is shittier Moshe?
P.S.: islam is also random shit, considering that they maintain that Jesus is a prophet of allah, completely missing the point of the resurrection (Jesus is GOD) whilst putting their hope in some random dude that's dead for 1300+ years.
Edit: spelling.
Peak Bullshit.
Everyone thinks climate change will be for the worse.
I think it's obvious climate getting warmer will be better. Rapid carbon sequestration destroyed the dinosaurs' tropical paradise. Warmer = more growth, plus tundra thaws and can be used for agriculture.
what a load of rubbish.....
religion has ALREADY ended intelligent human life in this planet.... long ago....
proof of it is the fact that a traitor has been elected TWICE, and to this present day this traitor continues to execute acts of treason and NO ONE dares to call this bastard what he is publicly.....
4 wheel drift
Sorry, but I have to strongly disagree with you.
As things deteriorate, the masses will distance themselves from logic and science towards religion.
Religion, not tech, is the future.
You mean to say that the masses make use of logic now?
The masses are dumb stupid sheep that in the past followed religion, now they follow consumerism and reality TV.
People should make more use of logic. If they would, they would throw out all the people that 'govern us'.
Funny then, how there's often a thriving religious component to advanced societies in many sci-fi stories. Must be something to it over and above being able to transit galaxies.
"You must live in fear!"
Seriously, we may have nuked ourselves already.
Hey wake up! How many "civilizations" have already expired? We walk among the ruins of the Mayas, Romans, Incas and some we can't even name going back 10,000 years! So predicting the "end of days" is a slam dunk because man is a predator and quite stupid on top of it. So its just a matter of when not if that we join the ranks of Atlantis and Ancient Egypt etc. They built pryramids we can't even match today and they are gone and so will we join them and fade into history. Enjoy what you can, as soon as you can!
Excellent point but take it a step further . . . . how many really advance civilizations have existed on Earth over the last 50,000,000 years that have been completely wiped out with no trace what-so-ever? There are few, if any, technological artifacts that would survive over that kind of time frame (or even for 100,000 years). Think the concept of the "Matrix" where humans have been wiped out like a dozen times or so . . . . .
One of the best of
that kind of article.
Bioweapon insanity has always been first on my list. It only takes enough human beings who are criminally insane enough to actually do that. Similarly with nuclear war, which would require perhaps more criminally insane people, and so, I would also put nuclear war risk after the bioweapon threats. (Such events could get going with some kind of false flag attack provocation.)
Humans could control,
versus
Humans cannot control.
Given enough genuine progress, then many of the other cosmic factors might be changed from something that nothing could be done about, to something which could be changed? Many possible cosmic risk factors at the present time are uncontrollable! When one presumes that human beings could do nothing about those, then such events become "Divine Violence." In ancient Sanscrit, there was a word "rudra," which literally meant "makes crying," that meant events of "Divine Violence," such as super-volcano eruptions, or major asteroid impacts. There is nothing practical which could be done for the majority of the human population to prepare, nor could any currently known group of humans prevent, that category of events.
Dealing with human risk factors that theoretically human beings could control is the catastrophe category list that we should care about! However, when one examines that list, the theme is that the greatest threats to some human beings are from some other human beings. Thus, those human risk factors become practically uncontrollable in the sense that we have no effective ways to prevent criminally insane people from getting things going which afterwards could not be easily stopped.
My position is that artificial intelligence and personality would end up necessarily having all the same psychological, political and philosophical problems that human beings already do. As soon as any being can build a good enough model of its world which has a model of itself within its model of the world, then that being would recreate and rediscover all of the problems that human beings always had. Furthermore, any such being would also recreate and rediscover all of the chronic problems within its life form that always are inherent to life itself, as a necessary package deal.
I would expect that just the same as human beings have to cope with criminal insanities, since some human beings become the greatest threats to some other human beings, so too, any development of AI would necessarily produce a range of personalities which threatened to become criminally insane, and perhaps even more so ... That problem is way more intense after one recognizes that the most competently functioning psychopathic and sociopathic people tend to preponderate in the higher levels of the social pyramid systems. Criminal insanities are not always an aberration in the ruling classes or the pyramidion people, those are more like a job description of their niche in those social pyramid systems.
Human beings developing enough of a mind to do effective, potentially self-reinforcing, science could be compared to the development of photosynthesis in its potential, except much more so. The development of photosynthesis was previously the greatest revolutionary influence on the evolution of life. Self-consciously driven advancement of a technological civilization could become awesome advances in the evolution of life, sped up to even more breathtaking exponentially accelerating rates ...
However, advances in science and technology are currently being channeled through social pyramid systems based on being able to back up lies with violence. That process selected for civilization to be controlled by some of the most criminally insane people, while most others have adapted for generation after generation to adapt to survive that. The emergence of genuine artificial intelligence threatens to recreate the kinds of criminal insanities that control civilization now in the context of a new emerging evolutionary ecology of industry, in which there could develop extremely strange fades and fashions, driving wilder oscillations of the potential developments of basic science and technology ???
At present & in the
foreseeable future:
Civilizations operate according to the principles and methods of organized crime, while self-consciousness discovers infinite tunnels of deceits through those systems. Those problems could become astronomically amplified through the singularity of some significant emergence of articifial intelligence and personality that could also accelerate its own subsequent development. The more that science and technology advances, the more that the threat of artificial intelligence and personality that becomes criminally insane emerges and potentially amplifies!
The greatest problem that humans face now:
Civilization is controlled through applications of the principles and methods of organized crime, while the majority of people have conditioned to not want to understand that. The runaway criminal insanities driven by the development of social systems based on backing up lies with violence are the source of the worst threats that we face from ourselves, and also the deeper reasons why WE FAIL to respond more effectively to collective threats on a planetary scale.
Ideally, human beings should learn to cope with their chronic political problems better, by better resolutions of the chronic psychological and philosophical problems that any other self-aware entity would discover and have to deal with. Maybe saner human beings would enable the development of superior manifestations of artificial intelligence and personality breakthroughs. However, at the present time, human civilization is rapidly becoming much more criminally insane, not less, and therefore, the emergence of criminally insane artificial intelligence and personality seems a relatively high risk (... IF a technologically based and evolving civilization survived all of the other threats long enough for that to happen ...)
Yep. Asteroid impact. Which is why we need the Woodward-Sciama Drive.
bunk
HEY.....another reason to consume mass quantities of BEER.
Woo Hoo!
So the Things with percentages of N/A are going to get us.. guess we really are Clueless
13. human stupidity
There is a 13th one, in my opinion most likely: the general dumbing down, a general and universal dilution of the IQ and EQ, hoards of people electing a Nobel prize laureate of peace, starting war after war, bringing the world to an Armagedon confrontation level, or some other cretins saying that ISIS chaps needing jobs rather than eradicating them (I can suggest some jobs for them: NSA, Congress (MCain would certainly appreciate a pal like that)), EU leaders shooting continuously in their feet, which to me is tantamount to sheer idiocy. Bottom line: these cretins got there because they were elected by masses of cretins, and this is our doom.
Fukushima is forever...
So radiation half-life doesn't enter into that equation?
Face facts, you don't put the back-up power emergency diesel generators in the god-damned basement where they can be submerged by seawater.
Chernobyl - You don't see how long you can generate electricity from the turbine generator by shutting the main steam valves removing the heat sink for the reactor.
3 Mile Island... When the temperature measured by the thermocouple reached a certain temperature (750 degrees, I read in one report), the computer software began to print out question marks because it didn't know what to do with temperatures higher than that.
The thing that will doom us all is human stupidity, because people no longer try to think out the worse case scenario and plan for it.
I spent hours at work today digging into a bunch of anomalies between what are two identical electronic chip testers. Could not make the same test program run on each without discovering marginal power supplies on each...Really ticks me off that these systems are not maintained better... In the Navy we did preventative maintenance so systems would stay up longer. Case in point, when I was in the service I was responsible for the maintenance of the air particulate detectors that automatically monitored the air for radiation. For the two years I did the maintenance, they ran perfectly. One of my friends told me that after I left to go to another sub, all three failed within 6 months. People just don't give a shit these days about making things work right.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDFlcn47Fig&feature=youtu.be&t=2m9s
Seriously at this point Armagegdon is something I came to look forward to, the way Humanity is screwed there is almost nothing worth saving anymore.
The key is knowing when to call the armagedon "bottom". When to roll out the Mad Max style Chevy Volt.
Political Correctness
13. Uncontrolled global spread of "socialism".
I think some grants need to be cancelled.
Been said before:
http://www.naturalnews.com/048645_Oxford_university_Health_Ranger_apocal...
As Health Ranger says:
Keep up Oxford!!
"Science" is not the problem. The social pyramid systems based on backing up lies with violence are the problem. Technology has been channeled through those established social systems to become better at being dishonest and backing that up with violence. That is NOT the fault of "science," nor is it correct to say that "science" is "out-of-control." Efforts made by some human beings to control other human beings are OUT OF CONTROL. Science enables building better weapons, etc. ... However, so far, science has NOT be allowed to change the primary political processes that apply science.
Health Ranger is another classic reactionary revolutionary who denounces the established death control, profit from disease systems, based on the maximum possible deceits, but does NOT propose any systematically better death controls in the context of an overall improved artificial selection system, that was more consciously consistent with natural selection. The material from the Health Ranger that I have seen does NOT systematically connect human ecology with medicine.
Those issues are hyper-complicated due to the established systems having be successful through being deceitful, while the only publicly significant opposition to that stays within the same frame of reference of profoundly deceitful attitudes towards the death control issues, which are associated by a range of matching attitudes of evil deliberate ignorance. That the uses of science and technology tend to be applied through the most deceitful/fraudulent death/financial control systems is a contradiction of the ideals of science. However, one of the main reasons why people falsely blame science is that they are reactionary revolutionaries who do not want to become more scientific about the death controls, except to the degree that only facilitates condemning those systems which currently exist.
The kind of scientific dictatorship that we are more and more living inside is an obvious oxymoron! The noun was always dictatorship (fake democracy) which was modified by the adjective "scientific." We should go through intellectual scientific revolutions to make political science become more consistent with physical science. As long as science is channeled through a social pyramid system based on lies and violence, ignorance and fear, then the applications of that increasingly effective science are going to get more psychotically dangerous. How could human beings survive developing technologies that became trillions of times more powerful if they applied that through social pyramid systems based on lies, ignorance, violence and fear?
On the other hand, there ARE chronic political problems inherent in the nature of life which have to be resolved somehow. At present all of the established systems and their controlled opposition are mostly being profoundly anti-scientific in their basic attitudes. When such people blame "science" for that, they are profoundly mistaken! The PROBLEM is the combination of some science within the context of previous basic human stupidity and greed. When people observe that combination of that, some tend to blame the science. That is classic controlled oppositions' kind of misrepresentation of the issues, which repeat on at least 2 levels:
One:
There are and must be death control systems.
Two:
Those established systems tend to be surrounded by controlled opposition groups which denounce established forms of deceitful death controls, but do NOT propose NOR implement better overall death control systems.
As my earlier comment above outlined, at present most cosmic disasters could not be effectively prevented nor prepared for. It is the human driven disasters that are the most problematic, because they tend to be tangled up in the history that the greatest threats to some human beings were other human beings.
Science has entered into those realities, to provide technologies which are trillions of times more powerful, but otherwise, science has NOT become genuine political science, because the the paradoxical that previous social successes were based on systems of enforced frauds, or lies backed by violence. We need a quantum leap in those political systems.
As long as progress in science is channeled through social pyramid systems based on backing up lies with violence, in order to control other people, then things will surely be amplified to astronomical sizes of worsening conditions ... which is what we actually observe! IF political science could change the perception of the social pyramid system into a social toroidal vortex system, then we might be able to begin more genuine political science progress. However, at present, old-fashioned religions and ideologies, amplified by science and technology, continue to spin out of control, BUT, that is not the fault of "science," rather, the degree to which the biggest bullies' bullshit dominated all social enterprises, including the philosophy of science, to invert and pervert the applications of science to be able to get away with better lying.