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Zusatztext It 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. Informationen zum Autor A graduate of Princeton University, BRYAN WALSH worked as a foreign correspondent, reporter, and editor for TIME for over 15 years. He founded the award-winning Ecocentric blog on TIME.com 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.
