Eternity - Our Next Billion Years (Hardcover)

It has become received wisdom that our world is doomed, that we live in the End of Days. Bleak predictions by psychics and scientists alike portend extreme weather, droughts, famines and floods that will overtake humanity within the century, or sooner. If not global warming, then supervolcanoes, meteoric impacts, nuclear war, bioterrorism, or natural plagues will get us. But whatever happens, Michael Hanlon believes that humankind will go on...and on. The shape of things to come will be strange, and somewhat terrifying, but will very likely seem banal to the people who inhabit it in the future. Humankind may be thrown back to the Stone Age on hundreds of occasions and may come close to extinction. But recovery will follow--each time more rapidly than the last. The world of 10,000 years hence, let alone 100,000,000 years hence, will be strange and almost unrecognizable. But no matter how battered and re-born, it will still be "our" world, populated by "us" through eternity.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Macmillan Science
Release date:	November 2008
First published:	2009
Authors:	M. Hanlon
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	302
ISBN-13:	978-0-230-21931-1
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Popular science Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Evolution Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > General Promotions
LSN:	0-230-21931-4
Barcode:	9780230219311

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