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 |
2004 |
OCLC Number |
55796081 |
ISBN |
0465068634 (pbk.) |
Subjects |
Twenty-first century--Forecasts ;
Disasters--Forecasting ;
End of the world
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Internet Access |
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Holdings |
Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last Modified |
Checkout Status |
EIAM |
CB161.R38 2004 |
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Region 2 Library/New York,NY |
07/22/2005 |
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Collation |
viii, 228 p. ; 21 cm. |
Notes |
Originally published: 2003. 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. |