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词条 Human extinction
释义

  1. Moral importance of existential risk

  2. Possible scenarios

     Severe forms of known or recorded disasters  Habitat threats  Scientific accidents   Further scenarios of extraterrestrial origin    Evolution of a posthuman species    Extinction through devolution  

  3. Perception of and reactions to human extinction risk

      Probability estimates    Psychology    Research and initiatives  

  4. Omnicide

  5. Proposed countermeasures

  6. In popular culture

  7. See also

  8. Notes

  9. References

  10. Further reading

{{See also|Global catastrophic risk}}{{short description|The hypothetical end of the human species}}{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2017}}

In futures studies, human extinction is the hypothetical end of the human species. This may result from natural causes or it may be the result of human action. The likelihood of human extinction in the future by wholly natural scenarios, such as a meteorite impact or large-scale volcanism, is generally considered to be extremely low.[1]

For anthropogenic extinction, many possible scenarios have been proposed: human global nuclear annihilation, biological warfare or the release of a pandemic-causing agent, overpopulation,[2] ecological collapse, and climate change; in addition, emerging technologies could bring about new extinction scenarios, such as advanced artificial intelligence, biotechnology or self-replicating nanobots. The probability of anthropogenic human extinction within the next hundred years is the topic of an active debate.

Human extinction needs to be differentiated from the extinction of all life on Earth (see also future of Earth) and from the extinction of major components of human culture (e.g., through a global catastrophe leaving only small, scattered human populations, which might evolve in isolation).

Moral importance of existential risk

"Existential risks" are risks that threaten the entire future of humanity, whether by causing human extinction or by otherwise permanently crippling human progress.[1] Many scholars make an argument based on the size of the "cosmic endowment" and state that because of the inconceivably large number of potential future lives that are at stake, even small reductions of existential risk have great value. Some of the arguments run as follows:

  • Carl Sagan wrote in 1983: "If we are required to calibrate extinction in numerical terms, I would be sure to include the number of people in future generations who would not be born.... (By one calculation), the stakes are one million times greater for extinction than for the more modest nuclear wars that kill "only" hundreds of millions of people. There are many other possible measures of the potential loss—including culture and science, the evolutionary history of the planet, and the significance of the lives of all of our ancestors who contributed to the future of their descendants. Extinction is the undoing of the human enterprise."[3]
  • Philosopher Derek Parfit in 1984 makes an anthropocentric utilitarian argument that, because all human lives have roughly equal intrinsic value no matter where in time or space they are born, the large number of lives potentially saved in the future should be multiplied by the percentage chance that an action will save them, yielding a large net benefit for even tiny reductions in existential risk.[4]
  • Humanity has a 95% probability of being extinct in 7,800,000 years, according to J. Richard Gott's formulation of the controversial Doomsday argument, which argues that we have probably already lived through half the duration of human history.
  • Philosopher Robert Adams rejects in 1989 Parfit's "impersonal" views, but speaks instead of a moral imperative for loyalty and commitment to "the future of humanity as a vast project... The aspiration for a better society- more just, more rewarding, and more peaceful... our interest in the lives of our children and grandchildren, and the hopes that they will be able, in turn, to have the lives of their children and grandchildren as projects."[5]
  • Philosopher Nick Bostrom argues in 2013 that preference-satisfactionist, democratic, custodial, and intuitionist arguments all converge on the common-sense view that preventing existential risk is a high moral priority, even if the exact "degree of badness" of human extinction varies between these philosophies.[1]{{rp|23–4}}

Parfit argues that the size of the "cosmic endowment" can be calculated from the following argument: If Earth remains habitable for a billion more years and can sustainably support a population of more than a billion humans, then there is a potential for 10{{sup|16}} (or 10,000,000,000,000,000) human lives of normal duration.[4]{{rp|453–4}} Bostrom goes further, stating that if the universe is empty, then the accessible universe can support at least 10{{sup|34}} biological human life-years; and, if some humans were uploaded onto computers, could even support the equivalent of 10{{sup|54}} cybernetic human life-years.[1]

Possible scenarios

{{See also|Global catastrophic risk|:Category:Doomsday scenarios}}

Severe forms of known or recorded disasters

  • Nuclear or biological warfare; for example, a future arms race may result in larger arsenals than those of the Cold War[6] and a hypothetical World War III could cause the total annihilation of humankind.
  • A pandemic[6] involving one or more viruses, prions, or antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Past examples include the Spanish flu outbreak in 1918 and the various European viruses that decimated indigenous American populations. A deadly pandemic restricted to humans alone would be self-limiting as its mortality would reduce the density of its target population. A pathogen with a broad host range in multiple species, however, could eventually reach even isolated human populations, e.g. when using animals as "carriers".[7] U.S. officials assess that an engineered pathogen capable of "wiping out all of humanity", if left unchecked, is technically feasible and that the technical obstacles are "trivial". However, they are confident that in practice, countries would be able to "recognize and intervene effectively" to halt the spread of such a microbe and prevent human extinction.[8]
  • Climate change; for example, global warming caused by human emission of carbon dioxide may render the planet uninhabitable. According to CDIAC, the Carbon Dioxide Information Analysis Center, increases in carbon emissions per head is closely followed by the growth in human population (a nearly 4-fold increase in the past 100 years).[9] On a longer time scale, Milankovitch cycles, also known as Quaternary Climatic Oscillations,[10] affect the climate in various ways.
  • Population decline through a preference for fewer children. If developing world demographics are assumed to become developed world demographics, and if the latter are extrapolated, data suggest an extinction before 3000 AD. John A. Leslie estimates that if the reproduction rate drops to the German level or Japanese level the extinction date will be 2400.{{Ref|2400}} However, evolutionary biology suggests the demographic transition may reverse itself.
  • A geological or cosmological disaster such as an impact event of a near-Earth object,[16] a lethal gamma-ray burst in our part of the Milky Way,[17][18] a supervolcanic eruption, or natural long-term climate change. Near-Earth objects (NEOs) serve as an absolute threat to the survival of living species.[11] A single extraterrestrial event[12] can lead to the accumulation of more deaths and destruction than any man-made war or epidemic could ever produce. This scenario is special among the non-anthropogenic extinction scenarios insofar as it is conceivable to develop countermeasures for a large proportion of such impact events.

Habitat threats

  • Human-induced changes to the atmosphere's composition may render Earth uninhabitable for humans. Carbon dioxide is toxic at high concentrations, causing death by respiratory acidosis (acidification of the blood), and lifelong exposure to even the moderately elevated concentrations projected to occur during the 21st century could cause chronic physical and mental health conditions in all humans. The upper limit, above which human survival and reproduction would be impossible, is still unknown.[13]
  • There is no other population of a large vertebrate animal like humans in the history of the planet that has grown so much, so fast, or with such devastating consequences to fellow earthlings. The growth of population occurred rapidly from 1 billion in 1800 to 2 billion in 1930, and has reached over 7 billion today. With the population going up, people will annually absorb more primary productivity of the Earth's terrestrial net, and increasing the use of land.[14] Mentioned by Center for Biological Diversity, the species will eventually lead to a crash when its population grows beyond the capacity of its environmental sustainment and reduces its capacity below the original level.[15] Evidence suggests birth rates may be rising in the 21st century in the developed world.[16] The work of Hans Rosling, a Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician and public speaker predicts global populations peaking at less than 12 billion.[17]
  • In around 1 billion years from now, the Sun's brightness may increase as a result of a shortage of hydrogen and the heating of its outer layers may cause the Earth's oceans to evaporate, leaving only minor forms of life.[18] Well before this time, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will be too low to support plant life, destroying the foundation of the food chains.[19] See Future of the Earth.
  • About 7–8 billion years from now, if and after the Sun has become a red giant, the Earth will probably be engulfed by an expanding Sun and destroyed.[20][21]

Scientific accidents

Without regulation, scientific advancement has a potential to risk human extinction as a result of the effects or use of totally new technologies. Some scenarios include:

  • The creators of a superintelligent entity could inadvertently give it goals that lead it to annihilate the human race.[6][22]
  • Uncontrolled nanotechnology (grey goo) incidents resulting in the destruction of the Earth's ecosystem (ecophagy).[23][24]
  • Creation of a micro black hole on Earth during the course of a scientific experiment, or other unlikely scientific accidents in high-energy physics research, such as vacuum phase transition or strangelet incidents. There were worries concerning the Large Hadron Collider at CERN as it is feared that collision of protons at a speed near the speed of light will result in the creation of a black hole, but it has been pointed out that much more energetic collisions take place currently in Earth's atmosphere.[23][25][26]

Further scenarios of extraterrestrial origin

(Major impact events.[28] and Gamma-ray burst in our part of the Milky Way[29][30] were already mentioned above.)

  • Invasion by militarily superior extraterrestrials (see alien invasion) — often considered to be a scenario purely from the realms of science fiction, professional SETI researchers have given serious consideration to this possibility, but conclude that it is unlikely.{{Ref|AlienConquestUnlikely}}

Evolution of a posthuman species

{{Main|Posthumanism|Transhumanism}}

Normal biological evolution of humanity will continue and change humans over geological time scales. Although this could, in a non-phylogenetic taxonomy, be considered to give rise to a new species, such an ongoing evolution would biologically not be considered a species extinction. Given the likelihood that significant genetic exchange between human populations will continue, it is highly unlikely that humans will split into multiple species through natural evolution.

Some scenarios envision that humans could use genetic engineering or technological modifications to split into normal humans and a new species – posthumans.[31][32][33][34][35][36][37] Such a species could be fundamentally different from any previous life form on Earth, e.g. by merging humans with technological systems.[38][39] Such scenarios do harbor a risk of the extinction of the "old" human species by means of the new, posthuman entity.

Extinction through devolution

Humans are doing so well that there's no more survival of the fittest.[40] This was highly debated in the 19th century in the form of devolution and degeneration.

Perception of and reactions to human extinction risk

Probability estimates

Because human extinction is unprecedented, speculation about the probability of different scenarios is highly subjective. Nick Bostrom argues that it would be "misguided" to assume that the probability of near-term extinction is less than 25% and that it will be "a tall order" for the human race to "get our precautions sufficiently right the first time", given that an existential risk provides no opportunity to learn from failure.[1][41] A little more optimistically, philosopher John Leslie assigns a 70% chance of humanity surviving the next five centuries, based partly on the controversial philosophical doomsday argument that Leslie champions. The 2006 Stern Review for the UK Treasury assumes the 100-year probability of human extinction is 10% in its economic calculations.[41]

Some scholars believe that certain scenarios such as global thermonuclear war would have difficulty eradicating every last settlement on Earth. Physicist Willard Wells points out that any credible extinction scenario would have to reach into a diverse set of areas, including the underground subways of major cities, the mountains of Tibet, the remotest islands of the South Pacific, and even to McMurdo Station in Antarctica, which has contingency plans and supplies for a long isolation.[42] In addition, elaborate bunkers exist for government leaders to occupy during a nuclear war.[41] Any number of events could lead to a massive loss of human life; but if the last few (but see minimum viable population), most resilient, humans are unlikely to also die off, then that particular human extinction scenario is not credible.[43]

Psychology

{{See also|Existentialism#Angst and dread}}Eliezer Yudkowsky theorizes that scope neglect plays a role in public perception of existential risks:[1][44]
Substantially larger numbers, such as 500 million deaths, and especially qualitatively different scenarios such as the extinction of the entire human species, seem to trigger a different mode of thinking... People who would never dream of hurting a child hear of an existential risk, and say, "Well, maybe the human species doesn't really deserve to survive".

All past predictions of human extinction have proven to be false. To some, this makes future warnings seem less credible. Nick Bostrom argues that the lack of human extinction in the past is weak evidence that there will be no human extinction in the future, due to survivor bias and other anthropic effects.[45]

Some behavioural finance scholars claim that recent evidence is given undue significance in risk analysis. Roughly speaking, "100-year storms" tend to occur every twenty years in the stock market as traders become convinced that the current good times will last forever. Doomsayers who hypothesize rare crisis scenarios are dismissed even when they have statistical evidence behind them. An extreme form of this bias can diminish the subjective probability of the unprecedented.{{Ref|unprecedented}}

Research and initiatives

Even though the importance and potential impact of research on existential risks is often highlighted, relatively few research efforts are being made in this field. In 2001 Bostrom stated:[46]

{{cquote|There is more scholarly work on the life-habits of the dung fly than on existential risks [to humanity].}}

Although existential risks are less manageable by individuals than, e.g., health risks, according to Ken Olum, Joshua Knobe, and Alexander Vilenkin the possibility of human extinction does have practical implications. For instance, if the "universal" Doomsday argument is accepted it changes the most likely source of disasters, and hence the most efficient means of preventing them. They write: "... you should be more concerned that a large number of asteroids have not yet been detected than about the particular orbit of each one. You should not worry especially about the chance that some specific nearby star will become a supernova, but more about the chance that supernovas are more deadly to nearby life than we believe."[47]

Multiple organizations with the goal of helping prevent human extinction exist. Examples are the Future of Humanity Institute, the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, the Future of Life Institute, the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, and the Global Catastrophic Risk Institute (est. 2011).

Omnicide

Omnicide is human extinction as a result of human action. Most commonly it refers to extinction through nuclear warfare or biological warfare,[48][49][50] but it can also apply to extinction through means such as a global anthropogenic ecological catastrophe.[51]

Omnicide can be considered a subcategory of genocide.[52] Using the concept in this way, one can argue, for example, that:{{cquote|The arms race is genocidal in intent given the fact that the United States and the Soviet Union are knowingly preparing to destroy each other as viable national and political groups.[53]}}

However, the Cold War arms race differed from genocide in that the weapons involved were not used, instead serving as nuclear deterrence.

Proposed countermeasures

{{Further|Global catastrophic risk#Precautions and prevention}}Stephen Hawking advocated colonizing other planets within the solar system once technology progresses sufficiently, in order to improve the chance of human survival from planet-wide events such as global thermonuclear war.[54][55]

More economically, some scholars propose the establishment on Earth of one or more self-sufficient, remote, permanently occupied settlements specifically created for the purpose of surviving global disaster.[41][42] Economist Robin Hanson argues that a refuge permanently housing as few as 100 people would significantly improve the chances of human survival during a range of global catastrophes.[41][56]

In popular culture

{{Main|Apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction}}

Some 21st century pop-science works, including The World Without Us by Alan Weisman, pose an artistic thought experiment: what would happen to the rest of the planet if humans suddenly disappeared?[57][58] A threat of human extinction, such as through a technological singularity (also called an intelligence explosion), drives the plot of innumerable science fiction stories; an influential early example is the 1951 film adaption of When Worlds Collide.[59] Usually the extinction threat is narrowly avoided, but some exceptions exist, such as R.U.R. and Steven Spielberg's A.I.[60]

See also

  • Antinatalism
  • Deep ecology
  • Doomsday argument
  • Ecocide
  • End time
  • Extinction event
  • Extinction Rebellion
  • Global catastrophic risks
  • Great Filter
  • Holocene extinction
  • Mutual assured destruction
  • Space and survival
  • Toba catastrophe theory
  • Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

Notes

{{Refbegin}} {{note|unprecedented}} For research on this, see Psychological science volume 15 (2004): Decisions From Experience and the Effect of Rare Events in Risky Choice. The under-perception of rare events mentioned above is actually the opposite of the phenomenon originally described by Kahneman in "prospect theory" (in their original experiments the likelihood of rare events is overestimated). However, further analysis of the bias has shown that both forms occur: When judging from description people tend to overestimate the described probability, so this effect taken alone would indicate that reading the extinction scenarios described here should make the reader overestimate the likelihood of any probabilities given. However, the effect that is more relevant to common consideration of human extinction is the bias that occurs with estimates from experience, and these are in the opposite direction: When judging from personal experience people who have never heard of or experienced their species become extinct would be expected to dramatically underestimate its likelihood. Sociobiologist E. O. Wilson argued that: "The reason for this myopic fog, evolutionary biologists contend, is that it was actually advantageous during all but the last few millennia of the two million years of existence of the genus Homo... A premium was placed on close attention to the near future and early reproduction, and little else. Disasters of a magnitude that occur only once every few centuries were forgotten or transmuted into myth." (Is Humanity Suicidal? The New York Times Magazine 30 May 1993).{{note|PlanForDestruction}} ReligiousTolerance.org says that Aum Supreme Truth is the only religion known to have planned Armageddon for non-believers. Their intention to unleash deadly viruses is covered in Our Final Hour, and by Aum watcher, Akihiko Misawa. The Gaia Liberation Front advocates (but is not known to have active plans for) total human genocide, see: GLF, A Modest Proposal. Leslie, 1996 says that Aum's collection of nuclear physicists presented a doomsday threat from nuclear destruction as well, especially as the cult included a rocket scientist.{{note|Unbiased}} Leslie (1996) discusses the survivorship bias (which he calls an "observational selection" effect on page 139) he says that the a priori certainty of observing an "undisasterous past" could make it difficult to argue that we must be safe because nothing terrible has yet occurred. He quotes Holger Bech Nielsen's formulation: "We do not even know if there should exist some extremely dangerous decay of say the proton which caused eradication of the earth, because if it happens we would no longer be there to observe it and if it does not happen there is nothing to observe." (From: Random dynamics and relations between the number of fermion generations and the fine structure constants, Acta Pysica Polonica B, May 1989).

{{note|2400}} For the "West Germany" extrapolation see: Leslie, 1996 (The End of the World) in the "War, Pollution, and disease" chapter (page 74). In this section the author also mentions the success (in lowering the birth rate) of programs such as the sterilization-for-rupees programs in India, and surveys other infertility or falling birth-rate extinction scenarios. He says that the voluntary small family behaviour may be counter-evolutionary, but that the meme for small, rich families appears to be spreading rapidly throughout the world. In 2150 the world population is expected to start falling.{{note|AlienConquestUnlikely}} Former NASA consultant David Brin's lengthy rebuttal to SETI enthusiast's optimism about alien intentions concludes: "The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been the unfortunate habit of making assumptions. It often proved fatal." (See full text at SETIleague.org.){{Refend}}

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Further reading

  • Leslie, John. (1996). The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction. Routledge. {{ISBN|0-415-18447-9}}
  • {{cite news |last= May|first=Todd|date=December 17, 2018 |title=Would Human Extinction Be a Tragedy? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/opinion/human-extinction-climate-change.html|work=The New York Times |location=|authorlink=Todd May}}
  • Rees, Martin. (2003). Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning: How terror, error, and environmental disaster threaten humankind's future in the century--on Earth and beyond. Basic Books. {{ISBN|0-46506862-6}}.
  • {{cite news |url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=eternal-fascinations |title=Eternal Fascinations with the End: Why We're Suckers for Stories of Our Own Demise: Our pattern-seeking brains and desire to be special help explain our fears of the apocalypse |author=Michael Moyer |date=September 2010 |work=Scientific American}}
  • Torres, Phil. (2017). Morality, Foresight, and Human Flourishing|Morality, Foresight, and Human Flourishing: An Introduction to Existential Risks. Pitchstone Publishing. {{ISBN|978-1634311427}}.
  • Michel Weber, [https://www.academia.edu/9735162/_McPherson_Near_Term_Extinction_2014_ McPherson, "Near Term Extinction"], Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, vol. 10, no. 2, 2014, pp. 319–326.
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