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Author:

Rees, Martin J., 1942-

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 / Martin Rees.

Publisher:

Basic Books,

Copyright Date:

2004

Description:

viii, 228 p. ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Twenty-first century.--Forecasts.
Disasters.--Forecasts.
End of the world.

Notes:

Originally published: 2003. Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-208) and index.

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.

ISBN:

9780465068630 (pbk.)
0465068634 (pbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)55796081

LCCN:

2004556001

Locations:

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

OTAX626 -- Wilcox Library (Oskaloosa)