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Scatter, Adapt And Remember: Annalee Newitz
Scatter, Adapt And Remember: Annalee Newitz
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In its 4.5 billion–year history, life on Earth has been almost erased at least half a dozen times: shattered by asteroid impacts, entombed in ice, smothered by methane, and torn apart by unfathomably powerful mega volcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How? As a species, Homo sapiens is at a crossroads. Study of our planet’s turbulent past suggests that we are overdue for a catastrophic disaster, whether caused by nature or by human interference. It’s a frightening prospect, as each of the Earth’s past major disasters - from meteor strikes to bombardment by cosmic radiation - resulted in a mass extinction, where more than 75 percent of the planet’s species died out. Newitz explains that although global disaster is all but inevitable, our chances of long-term species survival are better than ever. Life on Earth has come close to annihilation—humans have, more than once, narrowly avoided extinction just during the last million years - but every single time a few creatures survived, evolving to adapt to the harshest of conditions.
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Autobiography/Bio/Non-Fiction, OS paperback; Black Inc 2013; as newShare
