What's going to destroy humanity this year?

[Rath]

Samus Aran said:

Rath said:

Samus Aran said:

Actually the damages wouldn't be extremely high. There have been a lot of pandemic outbreaks were millions of people died, but there's almost no example in history were diseases killed of an entire race. The only thing that comes to mind at the moment are the Inca's and the Aztecs, but even they didn't completely die off.

Birth rate is so high in some places that it could easily buffer against 100million dead people.

Bubonic Plague absolutley ravaged Europe, killed over half the population. I don't know a huge amount about it but it seems likely some ethnic groups would have been eradicated by that.

I have written my paper about that subject and you're well... wrong. First of all, it isn't even clear if it was the bubonic plague and second of all it's not entirely known how many people died of it, estimates range all over the place(it was however a pretty big number). No ethnic groups that we know of disappeared. 

Ok the black death then. And it certainly was a very large number, estimates of historical events almost always range widely but it certainly culled a very large percentage of the population. Given the number of ethnic groups in Europe and the percentage of people wiped out in some areas it just seems likely to me that some smaller ethnic groups would be eliminated. Of course I could easily be wrong, I'll bow to your expertise on this one as you've studied it and I haven't.