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Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction

by Annalee Newitz

Human survival in a disaster-prone world

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Awards & Recognition

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    Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist in Science & Technology

    The book is identified as a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science & Technology.

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Human survival in a disaster-prone world

Annalee Newitz connects Earth’s history of mass-extinction threats with questions about humanity’s future. The book ranges from research into natural hazards, including tsunami simulation, to possibilities for sustaining life in engineered environments, such as cyanobacteria-based “living cities” and space colonies enabled by space elevators. Ancient underground cities in central Turkey provide another point of reference for considering how people might adapt. Together, these subjects frame survival as a problem involving both understanding planetary risks and imagining ways to preserve human life beyond familiar settings.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in popular science and evolutionary history.
  • Readers curious about extinction risks and possible approaches to long-term human survival.
  • Readers exploring speculative technologies and adaptations, from living cities to space colonies.

Themes

Mass extinction and planetary hazardsHuman adaptation and survivalScientific research and future technologiesLife beyond Earth

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Book overview

A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist in Science & Technology

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 megavolcanoes. And we know that another global disaster is eventually headed our way. Can we survive it? How? In this brilliantly speculative work of popular science, Annalee Newitz, editor of io9.com, explains that although global disaster is all but inevitable, our chances of long-term species survival are better than ever. Scatter, Adapt, and Remember explores how scientific breakthroughs today will help us avoid disasters tomorrow, from simulating tsunamis or studying central Turkey's ancient underground cities, to cultivating cyanobacteria for "living cities" or designing space elevators to make space colonies cost-effective. Readers of this book will be equipped scientifically, intellectually, and emotionally to face whatever our future holds.
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