what natural disaster is most likely to wipe out the human race?

[mopaul]

supervolcanoes? massive earthquakes? polar shift? ice age?
asteroid impact? disease?

it's happened before, and it'll happen again.

[havocmom]

1. Greed

That's it, greed.

[annabanana]

25. (also my first response).. ... ... n/t

[Heidi]

2. Global facism and all of its repercussions. (nt)

[Birthmark]

3. To-ba! To-ba! To-ba! To-ba!

When that baby blows I'm thowing a, you guessed it!, TOBA party! Wheeee!

[ThumperDumper]

4. A virus. n/t

[kodi]

5. it won't be a bang, it'll be a whimper

the race will die when the planet does. parasites live as long as the host does.

[wtmusic]

6. Asteroid, if we ever got that far

but a synthetic disaster in the form of a massive nuclear war will do it far earlier. It's a statistical certainty.

[Huckebein the Raven]

7. Toba or Yellowstone having a massive eruption

during our lifetimes would do it.

[Occulus]

8. Stupidity and/or ignorance.

In one form or another.

[misanthrope]

9. Man, don't you know?...

...WE are the extinction mechanism.

[dweller]

10. self importance

it's natural, it's a disaster, a petty tyrant and a dead end.

dp

[Jamastiene]

11. Ourselves...

If I understand the way global warming works, we'll end up causing a catastrophe ourselves that will do us in.

[Speck Tater]

12. Nearby super nova (10 or 20 light years away) or

Alien invasion, or
Nuclear war, or
Runaway greenhouse boils the oceans, or ...

[Wilms]

13. Oh, that an easy question.

[MariaS]

14. Bingo!!!

We have a winner:party:

[Yupster]

15. Two things

are to me most likely.

A virus cannot be stopped from wiping out most of the world's population.

An asteroid impact wipes out everyone.

I wish we were moving into space quicker. It would be nice if we were on a few planets so one disaster wouldn't wipe out the entire race.

[Swamp Rat]

16. or, something else.

[ArmchairActivist]

17. I don't think it can be done, completely...

At least short of some kind of calamity that wipes out all multicellular live altogether.

Even pre-technologically, as a species, we've managed to stick our snouts into every corner of the world imaginable, from the coldest tundra to the most barren desert to the murkiest swamp.

We're clever as hell, can eat anything, are fertile all the time and have a survival drive so strong we'll put up with anything to live another five minutes.

As long as there are roaches left to eat, hairless apes will be there to eat them.

-AA

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[CornField]

19. Wow... good morning to you too, mopaul

:rofl:

[KG]

20. electing republicans.

[AngryAmish]

21. Can't be done

We are like rats.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

22. the manmade natural disaster of global warming which will lead to:

Severe weather cycles with individual local disasters like hurricanes and flooding, combined with rising seal levels which will cause a temporary Ice Age which will also displace coastal residents, combined with rising rates of environmental diseases like melanoma, combined with viruses and pestilances the like of which we've never seen, combined with coming wars over fewer and fewer natural resources like food, water and energy. Pockets of humanity will be picked off serially. This really could happen. If you want to depress yourself, read the 3 part series that has been running in the New Yorker. We are all whistling in the dark.

[11 Bravo]

23. Until that bug-eyed old lush Barbara Bush has a hysterectomy,

I live in fear that, against all odds, she may spawn again. That could do it.

[goodboy]

24. Facist Repuke Disease, otherwise known as FRD...(nt)