Scotland records its lowest number of births for the third year in a row
BBC - 25-Aug-2026Despite this, migration helped Scotland’s population grow slightly
Survival
Even when biologically speaking humans can live forever, there are still accidents, violence, natural disasters, etc, that can extinguish life.
Each threat is major topic in its own right but its important to keep an eye on them as the bigger the problem the longer it takes to fix it.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Will it help or destroy us?
Climate Change - technology should come up with solutions but I suggest erring on the side of caution for now
Energy - where is it all going to come from to power technological advances and maybe reverse climate change?
Earth Monitoring - massive monitoring projects to help predict and prevent natural disasters
Natural Disasters - earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunami and more
Pandemics - diseases can spread faster than we can produce cures and vaccines
Society - If society doesn’t survive, then you don’t survive… technology giveth, and technology taketh away!
Read more about: Abundance, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Climate Change, Earth Monitoring, Energy, Natural Disasters, Pandemics, Population, Preppers, Society, Space Colonization, War.
Survival News
UK enters demographic turning point as births fall behind deaths
Independent - 05-Jan-2026Deaths may soon outpace births, pushing the UK into an ageing, higher-tax future
Young generations face the true cost of Britain’s ageing population
BBC - 19-Dec-2025Lords warn poor planning today will force younger people to work longer and save earlier
The rise of the “one and done” family
BBC - 05-Dec-2025Modern pressures and fertility gaps shape the growing trend of single-child households
Survival Resources
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We Are as Gods
A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance, written by Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler
Oxford Institute of Population Ageing
Multi-disciplinary group with aim to undertake research into the implications of population change
International Longevity Centre UK
UK’s specialist think tank on the impact of longevity on society, and what happens next
Recursion Pharmaceuticals
Biotechnology company combining experimental biology and automation with artificial intelligence
NASA Center for NEO Studies (CNEOS)
Center for computing asteroid and comet orbits and their probability of Earth impact
06-Dec-2023
Exponential growth in ageing research
How the observation and understanding of smaller and smaller biological units has improved ageing research and medicine
04-Feb-2021
Have you had coronavirus? UK COVID-19 antibody tests from £65
Comparison of UK mail and clinic tests, plus a review of the Medichecks test
25-Jan-2021
Types of coronavirus tests, and how accurate are they?
Do you know the difference between sensitivity and specificity?
27-Apr-2020
Summary of London Futurists’ Engineering Greater Human Resilience Panel Discussion
Interesting thoughts from an international panel of futurists
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