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This year was the first experience we’ve had of a global disaster affecting every single person on Earth. And also how unprepared society was to deal with it, despite plenty of people giving warnings that this was going to happen at some stage.

But in the midst of all the doom I started to wonder, what other things could threaten humanity, that we are not thinking about? So I made the Map of Doom to list all the threats to humanity in one place.

But just finding them all is not enough. I wanted to find a way of comparing the risks of all of these disaster scenarios. So this video follows my attempt at doing that, and I think I’ve hit on a great way to visually compare all these dangers, which I haven’t seen anyone do before, so hopefully by the end of the video you’ll have a better idea about what the biggest threats are, and how they compare to this pandemic.

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[2] Fifth of countries at risk of ecosystem collapse, analysis finds
[3] Global Catastrophic Risk
[4] Human Extinction
[5] Global Challenges Foundation (pdf)
[6] Deadliest Earthquake
[7] If all the plankton died
[8] Gamma ray burst
[9] Asteroid Impacts Death Risk
[10] West coast US earthquake probabilities
[11] How many people die of earthquakes per year?
[12] Most deadly Earthquakes in history
[13] Asteroid Impact Frequency and Risks
[14] Supervolcanoes
[15] Average frequency of supervolcanoes
[16] Climate change deaths per year
[17] Deaths due to climate change
[18] Global Carbon Emissions Per Year
[19] Estimating Future Death Tolls
[20] Frequency of Pandemics
[21] Worst pandemics in history
[22] Climate Tipping Points
[23] The richest 1% carbon emissions
[25] The London Beer Flood

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Hey everyone who's come over from Veritasium's channel. Welcome! I've been a big fan of Derek's videos for ages, like seven or eight years, so it was really cool to do a crossover with him. His videos are really good aren't they? I've learned a lot from watching them.

domainofscience

Ah yes, the best branch of Science: Doom.

aaronpescasio

I love the uncomfortably long pauses at the end of each segment

valzugg

Can we take a moment how beautiful this video is; i mean no annoying background songs, very calm, informative, intuitive with these illustrations... etc
Love it, from France.

jeanclgnnn

I feel better knowing we’re protected from the robot apocalypse by “I am not a robot” capchas

AlexpxThreeTen

1. Most likely to kill the human race: The human race (Like someone didnt know this)

randomrant

Dom: “There are ways of deflecting an asteroid.”
Derek: “So basically, if a big asteroid is coming right ar us we’re screwed”
Me: nice 👍🏻

DoublesGarage

*I survived 2020 sticker exists*

Optimistic are we? There's still a month left.

ninefox

I came over here on a link from Veritasium and I'm very glad I did. Nice, well-presented scenarios with no wailing and scary music or shouted warnings. You and Derek are very similar in temperament it seems and also in your integrity. You have a new subscriber.

FloozieOne

It's YouTube channels like DoS, Kurzgesagt, and minutephysics that make science attractive to young people.
and remember, the youth is the future. Thank you Dominic!

elonmusk

This type of content is the reason yt totally beats television for me. Impressively researched and communicated. I would have loved to learn about this kind of stuff in high school.

thomasvandijk

You've literally applied Safety Engineering at a global scale. Awesome.

justindantonio

me: trying to be calm
DoS: here's Map of Doom. Have a great day!
me: ok, im going to watch it then ;-)

HaziqBinAzman

would love to see a third variable considered. "what can we do about it?" So we can focus on the things that are the most likely, most dangerous, and most easy to change.

NATESOR

I think this is a marvelous presentation. And I agree with your final comments. One aspect of doom scenario(s) presentations is that they do not include a circumstance in which several events take place at the same time. For example, multiple earthquakes, social revolutions, forest fires, drought, pandemics, etc...

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