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The 'Doomsday Argument' and Ecological Catastrophe

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  • Blaber, Richard Michael

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The so-called ‘Doomsday Argument’ of Carter, Nielsen, Leslie, Gott, and Bostrom is examined, in conjunction with attempts to refute it, in relation to the real-world prospects of catastrophic climate and environmental change, and loss of biodiversity. If the late James Lovelock was right in his hypothesis that the biosphere is protected by a ‘Gaia’ self-defence mechanism, humans may well face extinction precisely because they constitute a threat to the survival of the biosphere.

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  • Blaber, Richard Michael, 2022. "The 'Doomsday Argument' and Ecological Catastrophe," SocArXiv ne2z9, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:ne2z9
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/ne2z9
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