Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning

✍ Scribed by Martin Rees

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 248
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Bolstered by unassailable science and delivered in eloquent style, Our Final Hour's provocative argument that humanity has a mere 5050 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. [Publisher's description]

✦ Table of 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