The Map of Doom | Apocalypses Ranked

This follows my journey to find and rank all of the biggest threats to humanity. Grab yourself the Map of Doom poster here: store.dftba.com/collections/d...

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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.

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-- References ---
Thanks to Kurtis Baute for climate change info: www.kurtisbaute.com youtube.com/user/ScopeofScience
[1] 10 ways the world is most likely to end, explained by scientists bit.ly/3fPiZK9
[2] Fifth of countries at risk of ecosystem collapse, analysis finds
bit.ly/3qfpGKc
[3] Global Catastrophic Risk
bit.ly/2VgwusX
[4] Human Extinction
bit.ly/3ocAcjP
[5] Global Challenges Foundation (pdf)
bit.ly/3mqo9Pi
[6] Deadliest Earthquake
bit.ly/2ViLaYo
[7] If all the plankton died
bit.ly/2HVX5IQ
[8] Gamma ray burst
bit.ly/37cMilS
bbc.in/39t11w6
[9] Asteroid Impacts Death Risk
bit.ly/3fP4ciP
[10] West coast US earthquake probabilities
on.doi.gov/2VegasL
[11] How many people die of earthquakes per year?
bbc.in/3obBjQP
on.natgeo.com/36hvGdF
[12] Most deadly Earthquakes in history
bit.ly/2JnLliN
[13] Asteroid Impact Frequency and Risks
bit.ly/36hfGIx
bit.ly/3mgoVyh
[14] Supervolcanoes
bit.ly/3o4iJtN
[15] Average frequency of supervolcanoes
bbc.in/36lFB1M
[16] Climate change deaths per year
bit.ly/36hvZoP
bit.ly/2Vg6u0H
bit.ly/3mp9mEG
[17] Deaths due to climate change
bit.ly/39sOhVV
[18] Global Carbon Emissions Per Year
on.doi.gov/3ob3hMe
[19] Estimating Future Death Tolls
bit.ly/3fQbqCR
[20] Frequency of Pandemics
bit.ly/2JqQrKS
[21] Worst pandemics in history
bit.ly/36kVPZe
[22] Climate Tipping Points
bit.ly/39uAazw
[23] The richest 1% carbon emissions
bit.ly/3mmMdCL
[24] People killed by asteroids bit.ly/39vrI31
[25] The London Beer Flood
bit.ly/3fNjRyZ

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