An edition of Our final hour (2003)

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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An edition of Our final hour (2003)

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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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.

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Basic Books
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English
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228

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Forecasting, Leven, End of the world, Prévisions, Futurology, Fin du monde, Twenty-first century, Forecasts, Vingt et unième siècle, Wetenschap, Prévision, Disasters, Catastrophes, Milieurampen, Biologische wapens, Risicoanalyse

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Cover of: Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning
Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning: How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future In This Century--On Earth and Beyond
March 18, 2003, Basic Books
in English
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Cover of: Our final hour
Our final hour: a scientist's warning : how terror, error, and environmental disaster threaten humankind's future in this century on earth and beyond
2003, Basic Books
in English
Libraries near you: WorldCat

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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-208) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
303.49/09/05
Library of Congress
CB161 .R38 2003

The Physical Object

Pagination
viii, 228 p. ;
Number of pages
228

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL24947310M
Internet Archive
ourfinalhourscieree00rees
ISBN 10
0465068626
LCCN
2003000301
OCLC/WorldCat
51505779
Goodreads
973717

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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. [Publisher's description]

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