Yes, this is the general reason why global catastrophic risks (including global warming, global pandemics and so on) shade into existential risks.
In fact, my personal view of x-risk is that these are the most likely and worrying failure modes : some catastrophe cripples human civilization and technology, we never really recover, and then much further in the future die off from some natural extinction event.
Yes, this is the general reason why global catastrophic risks (including global warming, global pandemics and so on) shade into existential risks.
In fact, my personal view of x-risk is that these are the most likely and worrying failure modes : some catastrophe cripples human civilization and technology, we never really recover, and then much further in the future die off from some natural extinction event.