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" Our final hour : "
Martin Rees
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BL
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629106
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Rees, Martin J.,1942-
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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
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viii, 228 pages ;; 22 cm
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0465068626
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: 9780465068623
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-208) and index
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| Contents
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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
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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 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
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Twenty-first century, Forecasts
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Disasters-- Forecasting
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End of the world
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Futurology
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303.49/09/05
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CB161.R38 2003
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