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Stephen Hawking and Human Extinction

The link is to a Yahoo Answers questions asked about 4 weeks ago by Stephen Hawking about how humanity could survive the next 100 years.

Oddly enough I was phoned up by a newspaper today asking for a comment about this. Frankly humanity may end up short of energy, have to cope with climate change and a sort of global squabble could develop over a mixture of resource issues and the Middle East. However, I do not think it is possible for humanity to kill itself off completely.

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Chris: August
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