Format:
VIII, 228 S.
,
24 cm
ISBN:
0465068626
,
0465068634
,
9780465068630
Note:
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
Language:
English
Subjects:
Engineering
,
Natural Sciences
Keywords:
Forschung
;
Katastrophe
;
Naturwissenschaften
;
Risiko
Author information:
Rees, Martin 1942-
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