Catastrophes (Society/Future/Catastrophes)
up CatastrophesSites describing, explaining, forecasting, exploring, or suggesting amelioration for possible future catastrophes -- generally planetary in scale. These may be geophysical, astronomical, environmental, economic, political, technological, or spiritual in nature.EntriesArmageddon Online http://www.armageddononline.org/ Armageddon, End of the world scenarios, natural disasters and daily news! Challenges of Nanotechnology Misuse Cited in Leslie's 'The End of the World' http://www.foresight.org/Updates/Update26/Update26.3.html From the Foresight Institute (which specialises in nanotechnology). Possible Future Global Catastrophes http://humanknowledge.net/SocialScience/Futurology/Catastrophes.html This survey considers earthquake, pandemic, alien aggression, interplanetary impact, supernova, ice age, nuclear catastrophe, bioterror, and nanotech robot aggression. Let's Save the Future http://www.savefuture.net/ A critical situation, arising due to a rapid development of the natural sciences, creation of powerful means of destruction and the use of ancient, military methods of resolving conflicts, is considered.  Tsunami Project http://tsunamiproject.blogspot.com/ The powerful earthquake and tsunami that hit Asia on December 26, 2004 was not the last in the masterminded sequence. The location of the next, and the final one is known. What we are still looking for, is only the date of this event. WWW Bomb Shelter http://ycrop.com/bombshelter/ Virtual "bomb shelter," based on instructions from Soviet Union Cold-War-era pamphlets, offers information on preparing for nuclear attacks, as well as histories and descriptions of various nuclear weapons. Exit Mundi http://www.xs4all.nl/~mke/exitmundi.htm A variety of apocalypses: meteors, black holes, technological disasters, weird physical phenomena, religious writings, robots, and aliens. SubcategoriesHuman Extinction Large Near Earth Object Impacts Supervolcano Eruptions Related categoriesDisasters Sites and categories devoted to events of large-scale damage and destruction. Misfortunes include both natural disasters such as floods and earthquakes, and also Extinction Most animals and plants that ever lived died out long before the present. The fossil record reveals that there are several periods of time in the earth's past when the extinction rate was very high Natural Disasters and Hazards This category serves as a collection and reference point for those parts of earth science concerned with earthquakes, hurricanes, and other natural events causing damage and destruction. Resources Nuclear Winter Nuclear winter is a hypothetical global climate condition predicted to be a possible outcome of a large-scale nuclear war, where ash and dust blown into the atmosphere, diminished sunlight, and Neigbour categoriesAcademic Departments This category is for academic departments offering degree programs in futures studies: research in the philosophy, Chats and Forums This category is for chats and forum that have a primary focus on speculation and research about Consultants This category is for English-language websites and webpages offering consulting services specializing in research about the future, foresight, and futures studies. This would include research on Essays Mailing Lists Millennialism Of course, everyone knows that the new millennium begins in the year 2001, right? =) News and Media This category is for news and media concerning the speculation and research about the future, including competing views by futurists. Organizations Personal Pages This category is for personal pages regarding the speculation and research about the future, including competing views by futurists. Predictions Sites that claim to predict the future of society in a way that may be later verified. Projects Research This category is for thinktanks and academic research centers in futures studies: research in the philosophy, methodology, forecasting, and analysis of alternative futures. Generally, these will be Transhumanism "Transhumanism is a way of thinking about the future that is based on the premise that the human species in its current form does not represent the end of our development but rather a comparatively Utopias Utopia, or Utopias, are in effect perfect societies, otherwise free from war, violence, most crime, and disease. It is, in a sense, the "Perfect Society" or perfect place - having taken its roots (This section is quite beta and buggy, have patience. Thanks)
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