Resources and Links

Sources and sister sites:

For much of its material Commission for The Human Future depends on partnerships with other like-minded news and information sites dedicated to human survival, the health of our planet and the mitigation of existential risks. We share their ideas with full acknowledgement of the source and authorship and provide links to it. Here are some of the more visionary and inspiring sources of information, discussion and solutions to existential threats.

• Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford University: https://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/
• Cambridge Institute for the Study of Existential Risk: https://www.cser.ac.uk/
• The X-risks Institute: https://www.xrisksinstitute.com/
• The Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere: http://mahb.stanford.edu/
• Future Earth: http://www.futureearth.org/
• Surviving C21: a blog. https://juliancribb.blog/
• Yale e360: http://e360.yale.edu/
• 350.org: https://350.org/
• Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists/Ploughshares: https://www.ploughshares.org/issues-analysis
• Future Directions International: http://www.futuredirections.org.au/
• Richard Heinberg: http://richardheinberg.com/
• David Suzuki Foundation: https://davidsuzuki.org/
• Great Transition Initiative: http://www.inspiringtransition.net/
• Lethal Heating Blogspot: http://lethalheating.blogspot.com.au/Al Gore:
• Al Gore: The Climate Reality Project: https://www.algore.com/project/the-climate-reality-project
• Leonard DiCaprio Foundation: https://www.leonardodicaprio.org/
• Aesop Institute for Human Survival: http://www.aesopinstitute.org/human-survival.html
• UN Global Environment Facility: https://www.thegef.org/
• UN Population Division: http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/population/

Reference material:

These are some key references in the field of existential risk:

• Surviving the 21st Century: Humanity's Ten Great Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them. By Julian Cribb, Springer 2017. http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319412696
• Is this our final century? Martin Rees’ TED talk on existential risk: https://www.ted.com/talks/martin_rees_asks_is_this_our_final_century
• Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios and Related Hazards. A paper by Nick Bostrom: https://nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html
• Our Final Hour by Martin Rees: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/185583.Our_Final_Hour
• Human race ‘will be extinct within 100 years’. UK Daily Mail. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1287643/Human-race-extinct-100-years-population-explosion.html
• Human Extinction ‘isn’t that unlikely’. The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/04/a-human-extinction-isnt-that-unlikely/480444/
• Surviving C21: a blog by science author Julian Cribb. https://juliancribb.blog/
• Nature Bats Last. Extinction blog by Guy Macpherson. https://guymcpherson.com/
• Under a Green Sky by Peter Ward. https://www.amazon.com/Under-Green-Sky-Warming-Extinctions/dp/0061137928
• A child born today may live to see humanity’s end… Reuters. http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/06/18/a-child-born-today-may-live-to-see-humanitys-end-unless/
• 2020: The Climate Turning Point : https://newclimateinstitute.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/2020theclimateturningpoint.pdf
• President Trump may cause the extinction of the entire human race, Yale professor says: http://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/01/07/president-trump-may-cause-the-extinction-of-the-entire-human-race-yale-professor-says