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RECORD NUMBER: 966 OF 1611Main 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 / | |||||||||||
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Author | Rees, Martin J., | |||||||||||
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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Collation | viii, 228 p. ; 22 cm. | |||||||||||
Notes | Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-208) and index. |
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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. |