I'm Aisha Roscoe, and this is a Sunday story from Up First.
Today, I met a guy with a very unusual list.
I've been keeping a notepad, a tally of ways the world could end.
It has 141 entries so far.
Should we be worried?
This is Ben Bradford, host of a new podcast called Are We Doomed?
Ben's show explores the biggest risks society, the planet, and our species are facing.
There are so many things that could take humanity out.
Nuclear war, climate change, pandemics, maybe AI.
And the less immediately worrisome, your supervolcanoes, aliens, or something called gray goo.
And it helps listeners figure out which future dooms are actually worth worrying
about and how we might survive whatever is coming our way.
The post-apocalypse, it turns out, is almost certainly a group project.
Today on the Sunday story, is the world ending?
Does it just feel that way?
Stay with us.
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