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Existential Risks List Promoting research into and mitigation of catastrophic and existential risks to the future of humanity

"History is Contingent, Built on Flukes, Accidents, and Surprises" by Mike Treder Ethical Technology (Mar 17, 2010)

"What Would You Say?" by Rocky Rawstern blog~nano (Mar 16, 2010)

"Why We Need Technology Ratchets" by Andrew Maynard 2020 Science (Mar 10, 2010)

"Pushing Back Against the Methane Tipping Point" by Jamais Cascio Open the Future (Mar 10, 2010)

"What “Irrelevance” Means and What It Doesn’t" by Mike Treder Ethical Technology (Mar 9, 2010)

Teaching Theories (2010-03-15)

Geoengineering: Global Salvation or Ruin? (2010-03-15)

What’s Wrong With Transhumanism? (2010-03-13)

The Science of Earthquakes (2010-03-06)

Scale of the Universe (2010-02-24)

Hacking the Earth by Jamais Cascio (2009)

Global Catastrophic Risks by eds. Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic (2008)

Get Back in the Box : Innovation from the Inside Out by Douglas Rushkoff (2005)

Citizen Cyborg: Why Democratic Societies Must Respond to the Redesigned Human of the Future by James Hughes (2004)

Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance by Mihail Roco and William Sims Bainbridge (2003)

Two Stars for Peace: The Case for Using U.S. Statehood to Achieve Lasting Peace in the Middle East by Martine Rothblatt (2003)

Manna by Marshall Brain (2002)

Bostrom, N. and M. Cirkovic eds. 2007. Global Catastrophic Risks. Oxford University Press.

"Global Technology Regulation and Potentially Apocalyptic Technological Threats," by J. Hughes, in Nanoethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Nanotechnology (2007)

Millennial Tendencies in Responses to Apocalyptic Threats by J. Hughes in Global Catastrophic Risks eds. Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Cirkovic. Oxford University Press. 2008. pgs 72-89 Apr 14, 2008

Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios and Related Hazards by Nick Bostrom

Dinosaurs, Dodos, Humans? (pdf) by Nick Bostrom

Catastrophe: Risk and Response by Richard Posner

The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction by John Leslie

Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning: How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future In This Century - On Earth and Beyond by Martin Rees

Reducing the risk of human extinction by Jason Matheny

Emerging Systemic Risks in the 21st Century: An Agenda for Action (pdf) Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (2003)

Global Risks 2006 (pdf) World Economic Forum (2006)

Annihilation from Within: The Ultimate Threat to Nations Fred Ikle

Catastrophe, Social Collapse, and Human Extinction (pdf)., and Robin Hanson (2007)

Some Limits to Global Ecophagy, with Public Policy Recommendations. by Robert Freitas
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Ikle, F. C. 2006. Annihilation from Within: The Ultimate Threat to Nations. Columbia University Press.

Joy, B. 2000. Why the Future Doesn't Need Us. Wired Magazine, April, Issue 8.04.

Leslie, J. 1996. The End of the World. Routledge.

Matheny, J. 2006. Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction..

Posner, R. 2004. Catastrophe: Risk and Response. Oxford University Press, 2005.

Preston, R. 2002. The Demon in the Freezer. Fawcett, 2003.

Rees, M. 2003. Our Final Hour. Basic Books, 2004.