Our final hour : a scientist's warning : how terror, error, and environmental disaster threaten humankind's future in this century on earth and beyond /
Rees, Martin J., 1942-
Our final hour : a scientist's warning : how terror, error, and environmental disaster threaten humankind's future in this century on earth and beyond / Martin Rees. - New York : Basic Books, - viii, 228 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-208) and index.
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 50/50 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.
0465068626 9780465068623 0465068634 9780465068630
2003000301
Twenty-first century--Forecasts.
Disasters--Forecasting.
End of the world.
--
Catastrophes--
Fin du monde.
Disasters--Forecasting.
End of the world.
Twenty-first century.
Wetenschap.
Milieurampen.
Biologische wapens.
Risicoanalyse.
Leven.
Forecasts.
CB161 / .R38 2003
303.49/09/05
Our final hour : a scientist's warning : how terror, error, and environmental disaster threaten humankind's future in this century on earth and beyond / Martin Rees. - New York : Basic Books, - viii, 228 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-208) and index.
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 50/50 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.
0465068626 9780465068623 0465068634 9780465068630
2003000301
Twenty-first century--Forecasts.
Disasters--Forecasting.
End of the world.
--
Catastrophes--
Fin du monde.
Disasters--Forecasting.
End of the world.
Twenty-first century.
Wetenschap.
Milieurampen.
Biologische wapens.
Risicoanalyse.
Leven.
Forecasts.
CB161 / .R38 2003
303.49/09/05