By Geoff Dawson
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March 03, 2020 07: 58:57
Could we face a mass termination of human beings in our lifetime?
As international temperatures rise and this summer’s bushfires ravage the Australian landscape, it’s a worst-case scenario that is beginning to be seriously discussed.
The fast spread of the coronavirus in recent weeks has also escalated the stress and anxiety that individuals feel about their death.
However, there appears to be a distinction in the method the general public has reacted to these two hazards. International warming and potential mass extinction are seen as an unclear threat someplace out there in the long run, whereas coronavirus is considered as a clear and imminent danger.
The growing fear of a coronavirus pandemic appears to have quickly motivated Australian health authorities and federal governments into immediate and proper action.
By comparison, the anxiety around worldwide warming and prospective mass termination seems silenced.
Humans have an ignorant optimism
A report written by Paul Gilding, a fellow at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Management, and commissioned by the Development National Centre for Environment Remediation, advanced the view that there is a ” high probability of human civilisation concerning an end in 2050