- People think that human extinction needs to be prevented, but do not think that an extinction catastrophe would be uniquely bad relative to near-extinction catastrophes. More people find extinction uniquely bad when asked to consider the extinction of an animal species rather than humans (n=2,507). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-50145-9 2 comments science
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