| Main Title |
Our final hour : a scientist's warning : how terror, error, and environmental disaster threaten humankind's future in this century on earth and beyond / |
| Author |
Rees, Martin J.,
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| Publisher |
Basic Books, |
| Year Published |
2003 |
| OCLC Number |
51505779 |
| ISBN |
0465068626 (hbk. : alk. paper); 9780465068623 (hbk. : alk. paper) |
| Subjects |
Twenty-first century--Forecasts ;
Disasters--Forecasting ;
End of the world ;
Wetenschap ;
Milieurampen ;
Biologische wapens ;
Risicoanalyse ;
Leven ;
Disasters--Forecasts ;
Futurology
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| Holdings |
| Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last
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Checkout
Status |
| ELBM |
CB161.R38 2003 |
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AWBERC Library/Cincinnati,OH |
05/14/2012 |
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| Collation |
viii, 228 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-208) and index. |
| Contents Notes |
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. Publisher's description: Bolstered by unassailable science and delivered in eloquent style, Our Final Hour's provocative argument that humanity has a mere 5050 chance of surviving the next century has struck a chord with readers, reviewers, and opinion-makers everywhere. Rees's vision of our immediate future is both a work of stunning scientific originality and a humanistic clarion call on behalf of the future of life. |
