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 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 - VIII, 228 S. 24 cm
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 scence? -- Does our fate have cosmic significance? -- Beyond earth -- Epilogue
0465068626 0465068634 9780465068630
GBA3-Z5340 dnb
Twenty-first century / Forecasts
Disasters / Forecasting
Nature / Effect of human beings on
Futurology
Katastrophe
Forschung
Naturwissenschaften
Risiko
363.3497 / R-33
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 - VIII, 228 S. 24 cm
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 scence? -- Does our fate have cosmic significance? -- Beyond earth -- Epilogue
0465068626 0465068634 9780465068630
GBA3-Z5340 dnb
Twenty-first century / Forecasts
Disasters / Forecasting
Nature / Effect of human beings on
Futurology
Katastrophe
Forschung
Naturwissenschaften
Risiko
363.3497 / R-33