Our final hour
Subtitle: a scientist's warning : how terror, error, and environmental disaster threaten humankind's future in this century on earth and beyond
By: Martin Rees
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Leven; End of the world; Futurology; Prévision; Catastrophes; Biologische wapens; Risicoanalyse; Prévisions; Forecasting; Wetenschap; Fin du monde; Forecasts; Vingt et unième siècle; Milieurampen; Twenty-first century; Disasters
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-208) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Technology shock; title: The doomsday clock: have we been lucky to survive this long?; title: Post-2000 threats: terror and error; title: Perpetrators and palliatives; title: Slowing science down?; title: Baseline natural hazards: asteroid impacts; title: Human threats to earth; title: Extreme risks: a Pascalian wager; title: The doomsday philosophers; title: The end of science?; title: Does our fate have cosmic significance?; title: Beyond earth; title: Epilogue.