Our Final Hour

A Scientist's Warning
by Martin Rees

Apr 13, 2004
Paperback
US $15.00
CAN $23.00
ISBN: 9780465068630
ISBN-10: 0465068634
Published by Basic Books

 

Description

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.

Reviews

"The choices we make in the next few decades, Rees contends, could decide the fate of life not only on Earth but beyond, either ensuring its survival or dooming it forever.... Fortunately, Rees is too good a scientist to be content with telling only one side of the story."
— Dennis Overbye, New York Times Book Review

"Heady, scary-and very scholarly-stuff.... Rees writes with beautiful simplicity. This is a conversational book, totally accessible to a general reader."
— Baltimore Sun

"One of the most provocative and unsettling books I have read for many years.... That a scientist so distinguished as Rees should air these fierce anxieties is a sign that something is amiss."
— J.G. Ballard, Daily Mail (London)

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