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Author: Bryan Walsh ,
Bryan Walsh
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Imprint: Seven Dials
Dimensions:
Width: 12.80cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 19.60cm
Weight: 0.300kg
ISBN: 9781841884042
ISBN 10: 1841884049
Pages: 416
Publication Date: 20 August 2020
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
It takes a bold reporter and subtle thinker to survey the mortal threats we face and find a way towards hope; yet that is what Bryan Walsh has done in this terrifying, fascinating exploration of existential risk. Cascading catastrophes of the manmade kind are so frightful to consider that we naturally look the other way; but Walsh invites us to reckon with the world we've made, a crucial step towards taking responsibility for saving us from ourselves. The asteroids, the supervolcanoes, the plagues are not of our making; but the nukes, the climate disruption, the weaponized pathogens and challenges of AI are. With a storyteller's art and a scientists tools, Walsh helps us think the unthinkable, takes us to the observatories and laboratories where the future is made. Travel with him to doomsday and back, and nothing looks the same. * Nancy Gibbs, coauthor of New York Times bestseller The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity * In End Times, Bryan Walsh has put together the loudest, scariest wake-up call possible. And yet it's not a book without hope: Walsh lays out a challenging series of believable scenarios that can allow human beings to thrive along with our fellow earth-dwellers, in a way that requires only qualities we already have: compassion, intelligence, focus, and determination * Mark Bittman, New York Times columnist and bestselling author * It's not easy thinking about all the ways the world can end, let alone writing a whole book about them. But Bryan Walsh has managed the feat and then some, delivering a book that's as analytically astute as it is terrifically written. It takes a special kind of writer to pull this off, and in Bryan Walsh we found him. * Ian Bremmer, New York Times bestselling author of Us Versus Them: The Failure of Globalism * Instead of freaking out, read End Times. It's a wise and weirdly hopeful journey into civilization's darkest nightmares. * Jeff Goodell, author of The Water Will Come * Walsh does wonders in unknotting the dizzying agendas fueling many of the existential risks explored in END TIMES. * Scientific Inquirer * A harrowing chronicle of a range of threats that could bring about human extinction in the not-so-distant future. * The Washington Post * ECO WATCH, Best Environmental Books of August TIME MAGAZINE, 11 New Books to Read in August!
Author Information
A graduate of Princeton University, BRYAN WALSH worked as a foreign correspondent, reporter, and editor for TIME for over 15 years. He founded the award-winning Ecocentric blog on TIME.com and has reported from more than 20 countries on science and environmental stories like SARS, global warming, and extinction. He lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife and son.
