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Thread #80236   Message #1460917
Posted By: Wolfgang
14-Apr-05 - 08:21 AM
Thread Name: BS: Will we all go together when we go?
Subject: BS: Will we all go together when we go?
Today's Guardian has an article that just must please all doomsayers. Ten scenarios how human life on Earth could be at least severely damaged:

Super-volcano, robotic rebellion or terrorism? 10 scientists name the biggest danger to Earth and assesses the chances of it happening

nature is the ultimate bioterrorist

Some bits in the article are outrageously silly and should not have been printed in a serious newspaper:
There is a 0.15% probability that one will happen in your lifetime. is followed a few lines later by Chance of a super-volcano in the next 70 years: Very high.
Don't they proofread in the Guardian?

The reading was for me a mixture between scary and amusing. I do not worry about natural disasters like super-volcanoes for there's nothing we can do about at this moment, so why worry? I think it is worth worrying about things we can influence.

Wolfgang