Name: 人類會滅絕嗎？6分鐘英語 (Will humans become extinct? 6 Minute English)
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nuclear war. We’ll be finding out whether

human civilisation can survive these risks

Ah, so of course you’ve heard of the dodo?

Yes, dodos were large, metre-high birds which

That’s right. Dodos couldn’t fly and weren’t

very clever. They didn’t hide when sailors

with hunting dogs landed on their island.

a) The Galapagos, b) Mauritius or c) Fiji?

I’ll guess the Galapagos, Neil, because

I know many exotic animals live there. By

the way, that’s also cheered me up a bit

than the dodo! We’re far too clever to die

pandemics or rogue artificial intelligence,

That’s true. But existential risks don’t

species. Instead, they could destroy civilisation

survivors to struggle on in a post-apocalyptic world.

And it wouldn’t be the first time that has

The historical record suggests that about

occurs that wipes out about a third of the

about a third of the global population died.

historical record – the collection of all

of the world - like apocalyptic terrorists,

poisonous gas attack on the Tokyo subway.

another word for the final, apocalyptic day

how human error almost brought about Doomsday:

to a nuclear war without really intending to,

and probably the biggest example is if you

alarms, over the years, in which one side

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