Research Guides: Climate Change: Human Extinction

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Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction

The Selfish Ape: Human Nature and Our Path to Extinction

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Fertility and Climate Change (2021 Open Access) (Abstract) "A quarter of the total increase in emissions is attributable to the growth of emissions per capita, whereas three quarters are due to population growth. This evidence notwithstanding, demography in climate-economy models typically follows exogenous trends. We develop a climate-economy integrated model with endogenous fertility through a quality-quantity trade-off. The decentralization of the social optimum requires two complementary instruments, a carbon pricing policy and family planning interventions. Global population increases and reaches a peak, depending on the scenario, between 11.6 billion in the social optimum and 14.6 billion if only carbon prices are implemented. Fertility costs, i.e. the net present value of the climate-related costs per child, are in 2020 estimated to be about 22 thousand Euro in the social optimum and about 88 thousand Euro in the Second-Best with Fertility-Taxes scenario. Carbon pricing tends to have a rebound effect as it increases population growth leading to higher future emissions. Our results highlight the effects of fertility choices and global population on climate change, quantifying the cost of neglecting the interaction."

Streaming Videos

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Humanity’s Uncertain Future w_ Thomas Moynihan

The Sixth Extinction and Our Unraveling World

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Climate Change: Human Extinction

Human Extinction

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Streaming Videos

Humanity’s Uncertain Future w_ Thomas Moynihan

The Sixth Extinction and Our Unraveling World

Podcasts

Will Humans Go Extinct?

Is Human Extinction Inevitable?

Will humans survive the century?