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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.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, c2003.

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Location Call No. Status
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  303.49 R25    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  303.4909 REES    Check Shelf
Description viii, 228 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 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 scence? -- Does our fate have cosmic significance? -- Beyond earth -- Epilogue.
Subject Twenty-first century -- Forecasts.
Disasters -- Forecasts.
End of the world.
Forecasting.
ISBN 0465068626 hardback alkaline paper
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