via MysteriousUniverse A team of researchers at Oxford University, the Global Challenges Foundation and the Global Priorities Project recently issued a report, "Global Catastrophic Risks." In it, they discuss and issue rankings for events than can eliminate ten-percent or more of the human population within the next five years. Actually, the report suggests that a person may be five times more likely to die in an extinction event than in a car crash. Sebastian Farquhar, director at the Global Priorities Project told the Press Association, "There are some things that are on the horizon, things that probably won't happen in any one year but could happen, which could completely reshape our world and do so in a really devastating and disastrous way. History teaches us that many of these things are more likely than we intuitively think. Many of these risks are changing and growing as technologies change and grow and reshape our world. But there are also things we can do about the risks."