This follows my journey to find and rank all of the biggest threats to humanity. Grab yourself the Map of Doom poster here: null Link to Veritasium’s Asteroids video video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Wrc4fHSCpw 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. #existentialrisk #climatechange #DomainOfScience -- References --- Thanks to Kurtis Baute for climate change info: www.kurtisbaute.com null [1] 10 ways the world is most likely to end, explained by scientists https://bit.ly/3fPiZK9 [2] Fifth of countries at risk of ecosystem collapse, analysis finds https://bit.ly/3qfpGKc [3] Global Catastrophic Risk https://bit.ly/2VgwusX [4] Human Extinction https://bit.ly/3ocAcjP [5] Global Challenges Foundation (pdf) https://bit.ly/3mqo9Pi [6] Deadliest Earthquake https://bit.ly/2ViLaYo [7] If all the plankton died https://bit.ly/2HVX5IQ [8] Gamma ray burst https://bit.ly/37cMilS https://bbc.in/39t11w6 [9] Asteroid Impacts Death Risk https://bit.ly/3fP4ciP [10] West coast US earthquake probabilities https://on.doi.gov/2VegasL [11] How many people die of earthquakes per year? https://bbc.in/3obBjQP https://on.natgeo.com/36hvGdF [12] Most deadly Earthquakes in history https://bit.ly/2JnLliN [13] Asteroid Impact Frequency and Risks https://bit.ly/36hfGIx https://bit.ly/3mgoVyh [14] Supervolcanoes https://bit.ly/3o4iJtN [15] Average frequency of supervolcanoes https://bbc.in/36lFB1M [16] Climate change deaths per year https://bit.ly/36hvZoP https://bit.ly/2Vg6u0H https://bit.ly/3mp9mEG [17] Deaths due to climate change https://bit.ly/39sOhVV [18] Global Carbon Emissions Per Year https://on.doi.gov/3ob3hMe [19] Estimating Future Death Tolls https://bit.ly/3fQbqCR [20] Frequency of Pandemics https://bit.ly/2JqQrKS [21] Worst pandemics in history https://bit.ly/36kVPZe [22] Climate Tipping Points https://bit.ly/39uAazw [23] The richest 1% carbon emissions https://bit.ly/3mmMdCL [24] People killed by asteroids https://bit.ly/39vrI31 [25] The London Beer Flood https://bit.ly/3fNjRyZ -- Posters --- DFTBA Store: null RedBubble Store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/DominicWalliman I have also made posters available for educational use which you can find here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/95869671@N08/ - Some Awesome People -- And many thanks to my $10 supporters on Patreon, you are awesome! Theodore Chu Petr Murmak Sebastian Eric Epstein Alex Polo Kevin Delaney Reggie Fourmyle Mark Pickenheim Join the gang and help support me produce free and high quality science content: https://www.patreon.com/domainofscience -- My Science Books --- I also write science books for kids called Professor Astro Cat. You can see them all here: http://profastrocat.com/ -- Follow me around the internet -- http://dominicwalliman.com/ https://twitter.com/DominicWalliman https://www.instagram.com/dominicwalliman -- Credits -- Music, art, and everything else by Dominic Walliman Additional music: Higher Kiss by TrakTribe https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCALNf7YM2pEGJvIHf1zxftA Sound effects obtained from https://www.zapsplat.com/