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Our Final Hour: A Scientist's warning - How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future in This Century — On Earth and Beyond

by Martin J. Rees, Anonymous · 2003

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Bolstered by unassailable science and delivered in eloquent style, Our Final Hour's provocative argument that humanity has a mere 50/50 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.

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sciencescienceMore like thisLess of thispoliticspoliticsMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of thispsychologypsychologyMore like thisLess of this
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post-apocalypticpost-apocalypticMore like thisLess of this
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disasterdisasterMore like thisLess of thisenvironmentenvironmentMore like thisLess of thistechnologytechnologyMore like thisLess of this
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adult
Length
medium · 240 pages

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