End Times
Asteroids, Supervolcanoes, Plagues and More
$34.58
- Paperback
416 pages
- Release Date
24 August 2020
Summary
Newsweek and Bloomberg popular science and investigative journalist Bryan Walsh explores the history of extinction and offers a cutting-edge examination of existential risk, the dangerous mistakes we have yet to pay for, and concrete steps we can take to protect ourselves and future-proof our civilization.
What is going to cause our extinction?
How can we save ourselves and our future?
*END TIM…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781841884042 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1841884049 |
| Author: | Bryan Walsh |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Seven Dials |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 416 |
| Release Date: | 24 August 2020 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 30mm |
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TIME MAGAZINE, “11 New Books to Read in August!”
ECO WATCH, “Best Environmental Books of August”A harrowing chronicle of a range of threats that could bring about human extinction in the not-so-distant future. - The Washington PostWalsh does wonders in unknotting the dizzying agendas fueling many of the existential risks explored in END TIMES. - Scientific InquirerIt’s not easy thinking about all the ways the world can end, let alone writing a whole book about them. But Bryan Walsh has managed the feat and then some, delivering a book that’s as analytically astute as it is terrifically written. It takes a special kind of writer to pull this off, and in Bryan Walsh we found him. - Ian Bremmer, New York Times bestselling author of Us Versus Them: The Failure of GlobalismIn End Times, Bryan Walsh has put together the loudest, scariest wake-up call possible. And yet it’s not a book without hope: Walsh lays out a challenging series of believable scenarios that can allow human beings to thrive along with our fellow earth-dwellers, in a way that requires only qualities we already have: compassion, intelligence, focus, and determination - Mark Bittman, New York Times columnist and bestselling authorIt takes a bold reporter and subtle thinker to survey the mortal threats we face and find a way towards hope; yet that is what Bryan Walsh has done in this terrifying, fascinating exploration of existential risk. Cascading catastrophes of the manmade kind are so frightful to consider that we naturally look the other way; but Walsh invites us to reckon with the world we’ve made, a crucial step towards taking responsibility for saving us from ourselves. The asteroids, the supervolcanoes, the plagues are not of our making; but the nukes, the climate disruption, the weaponized pathogens and challenges of AI are. With a storyteller’s art and a scientists tools, Walsh helps us think the unthinkable, takes us to the observatories and laboratories where the future is made. Travel with him to doomsday and back, and nothing looks the same. - Nancy Gibbs, coauthor of New York Times bestseller The Presidents Club: Inside the World’s Most Exclusive FraternityAbout The Author
Bryan Walsh
Bryan Walsh is a graduate of Princeton University and worked as a foreign correspondent, reporter, and editor for TIME for over 15 years. He founded the award-winning Ecocentric blog and has reported from more than 20 countries on science and environmental stories like SARS, global warming, and extinction. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife and son.
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