Save the People!
Halting Human Extinction
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: ix, 247 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
"A book for middle-school-aged children about previous extinctions and possible threats to humans, from volcanoes, to asteroids, to pollution and diseases"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Earth : a very brief history -- Mass extinctions : the first four of five -- Mass extinctions, continued : the fifth one got the dinosaurs -- Homo sapiens : not the only humans -- DNA bottleneck : that time humans almost went extinct -- Asteroids : incominggggg! -- Supervolcanoes : the blast from below -- Disease : teeny tiny threats like bacteria and viruses -- Over population : we live here, we eat here-until we don't! -- War : the ultimate self-destruct button -- Sun : we're gonna need stronger SPF -- Outer space : supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, aliens -- Global warming : who turned up the heat? -- 1.5°C to 2° C : just a wee bit warmer -- We're doomed (JK, how to save the planet people).
Subjects:
Extinction (Biology) -- Juvenile literature.
Mass extinctions -- Juvenile literature.
Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- Juvenile literature.
Human beings -- Effect of climate on -- Juvenile literature.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Juvenile literature.
Human beings -- Extinction -- Juvenile literature.
Extinction (Biology) -- Juvenile literature.
Mass extinctions -- Juvenile literature.
Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- Juvenile literature.
Human beings -- Effect of climate on -- Juvenile literature.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Juvenile literature.
Human beings -- Extinction -- Juvenile literature.
Target Audience: Ages: 8-12
ISBN:
9780759553941
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C SCIENCE McA | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's NonFiction | Out (Due: 6/18/2024) |
C SCIENCE McA | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's NonFiction | In |
C SCIENCE McA | Ballentine Indoors | Children's NonFiction | Out (Due: 6/20/2024) |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-239) and index.