“How do I know what I think until I see what I say?”
– E.M. Forster

In X-Risk by Thomas Moynihan, Moynihan makes the claim that historical precedent of the apocalypse has a much different history than that of extinction, despite the fact they have been conflated to stand for a similar psychological phenomena in recent times. Moynihan makes the clear distinction: “In short, where apocalypse secures the sense of an ending, extinction anticipates the ending of sense.’