Human extinction
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Human extinction, or omnicide, refers to the possible ending of the human species, either by population decline due to singular natural events—for example, space irradiation, asteroid impact, or large
Nuclear war is an often predicted cause of the extinction of humankind.
Castle Romeo nuclear test on Bikini Atoll
Placard against omnicide, at Extinction Rebellion (2018)
Youngest Toba eruption
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The Toba eruption was a large eruption that occurred around 74,000 years ago, during the Late Pleistocene, at the site of present-day Lake Toba, in Sumatra, Indonesia. It was the last in a series of a
Human extinction
…about once every 50,000 years, though most such eruptions would not reach the scale required to cause human extinction. Famously, the supervolcano Mt. Toba may have almost wiped out humanity at the time of its last eruption (though this is contentious). Since anthropogenic risk is a relatively recent phenomenon, humanity's track record of…
Lake Toba is the resulting crater lake