GOOD news at last. While we deal with the credit crisis, the food crisis, the oil crisis and whatever new crisis turns up next week, we can at least rest secure in the knowledge that humanity is not about to be wiped out. That’s according to researchers meeting in Oxford to survey the catastrophic events that might consign humans to history (“Don’tpanic,we’ve got it covered”). Discounting climate change, which is happening too slowly to qualify as a catastrophic event, the gathering concluded that, for now at least, our continued existence is not in question.
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