Our final hour : a scientist's warning : how terror, error, and environmental disaster threaten humankind's future in this century on earth and beyond

Our final hour : a scientist's warning : how terror, error, and environmental disaster threaten humankind's future in this century on earth and beyond /

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Publisher's description: Bolstered by unassailable science and delivered in eloquent style, Our Final Hour's provocative argument that humanity has a mere 50/50 chance of surviving the next century has struck a chord with readers, reviewers, and opinion-makers everywhere. Rees's visio...

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Main Author: Rees, Martin J., 1942-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, [2003]
Subjects:
Twenty-first century > Forecasts.
Disasters > Forecasting.
End of the world.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • Technology shock
  • The doomsday clock: have we been lucky to survive this long?
  • Post-2000 threats: terror and error
  • Perpetrators and palliatives
  • Slowing science down?
  • Baseline natural hazards: asteroid impacts
  • Human threats to earth
  • Extreme risks: a Pascalian wager
  • The doomsday philosophers
  • The end of science?
  • Does our fate have cosmic significance?
  • Beyond earth
  • Epilogue.

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