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October 3, 2025Open Access

The Paradox of Doom: Acknowledging Extinction Risk Reduces the Incentive to Prevent It

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JGJakub GrowiecKPKlaus Prettner

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Overview

Analysis shows that recognizing extinction risk decreases investment incentives in humanity, highlighting the paradox.

Key Points

  • Increased extinction risk leads to greater impatience among individuals, reducing investment in future safety.
  • The study differentiates between human extinction risk and individual mortality risk, affecting people's behavior.
  • Using a framework of altruism and evolutionary perspectives, the findings clarify contradictions in risk perceptions.
  • Understanding this paradox supports the need for more effective strategies to tackle climate change and other risks.

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Growiec et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68e02f46f0e39f13e7fa2d3chttps://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2509.04855
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