Why Should Extinction Medicine Be a Specialty?

This commentary on a case builds on recent literature on climate change, health, and human extinction to argue in favor of a new clinical specialty: extinction medicine. If based on precise application of scientific findings about species extinction, disaster prevention and management, and health policy, such a specialty could help reduce humanity's extinction risk. Finally, the commentary suggests extinction medicine competencies, who might become an extinction medicine clinician, and how the specialty might be launched.