End Natural Disasters, Manmade Catastrophes, and the Future of Human Survival

Name: End Natural Disasters, Manmade Catastrophes, and the Future of Human Survival
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ISBN: 9780312365691

ISBN-10: 0312365691

ISBN-13: 9780312365691

Edition: 2008

Authors: Marq de Villiers

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What is the fate of the world as we know it?Tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes, pandemics, cosmic radiation, gamma bursts from space, colliding comets, and asteroidsthese things used to worry us from time to time, but now they have become the background noise of our culture. Are natural calamities indeed more probable, and more frequent, than they were? Are things getting worse? Are the boundaries between natural and human-caused calamities blurring? Are we part of the problem? If so, what can we do about it? InThe End,award-winning writer Marq de Villiers examines these questions at a time when there is an urgent need to understand the perils that confront us, to act in such a…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 11/25/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English




So What's the Problem?



Doomsday As a State of Mind



Catastrophe in Human Life: The Probability Theorem



Context



Our Perilous Neighborhood: Understanding Cosmology



This Plastic Earth: Plate Tectonics and Wandering Continents



Our Ever-Changing Climate: Ice Ages Now and Then



Fragile Life: The Conundrum of Mass Extinctions



Peril by Peril



The Perils Without: Comets and Asteroids



Earthquakes



Volcanoes



Poisonous Emissions and Noxious Gases



Tsunamis



Floods



Vile Winds: Tropical Cyclones and Tornadoes



Plague and Pandemic



What Is to Be Done?



Making Things Worse: Acts of God and Acts of Man



Making Things Better (i): Mitigating Natural Calamities



Making Things Better (ii): Undoing Human-Made Calamities


Postscript: Can We Do It? Will We?


Notes


Bibliography


Index