How it Ends: The Most Likely Extinction Events Midnight Facts for Insomniacs

Like it or not, the earth has an expiration date. Billions of years from now the sun will expand and swallow the planets of our solar system...but there’s no guarantee humanity will even make it that far.  
 
So what are the most likely end-time scenarios? Will the end of civilization  come at our own hands via nuclear conflict or rogue Artificial Intelligence? Or will nature take us out via plagues or asteroids or super-volcanoes?
 
Listen along for a final countdown...
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In this episode: 
The Doomsday Clock
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
Anthropogenic Risks vs Non-Anthropogenic Risks
The Global Catastrophic Risk Conference
Close Calls (NORAD fails)
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)
Gold Bullion
International Rivalries
Nuclear War
Asteroids (Boomsplode Cataclysm)
Artificial Intelligence
Super-volcanoes
Yellowstone Caldera
Long Vally Super-Volcano
Climate Change, briefly
Pandemic, briefly
The Great Deoxygenation
Red Giant/White Dwarf
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