Save the people! : halting human extinction /
McAnulty, Stacy,
Save the people! : halting human extinction / Halting human extinction Stacy McAnulty ; with art by Nicole Miles. - First edition. - ix, 247 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-239) and index.
In the beginning: Let's first learn from the past. 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 -- In the future: a few of my favorite threats. Asteroids : incominggggg! -- Supervolcanoes : the blast from below -- Disease : teeny tiny threats like bacteria and viruses -- Overpopulation : 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 -- What's going wrong today. 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).
"A book for middle-school-aged children about previous extinctions and possible threats to humans, from volcanoes, to asteroids, to pollution and diseases"--
008-012 Little, Brown and Company.
A Junior Library Guild selection.
9780759553941 0759553947
2021027527
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.
Informational works.
Save the people! : halting human extinction / Halting human extinction Stacy McAnulty ; with art by Nicole Miles. - First edition. - ix, 247 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-239) and index.
In the beginning: Let's first learn from the past. 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 -- In the future: a few of my favorite threats. Asteroids : incominggggg! -- Supervolcanoes : the blast from below -- Disease : teeny tiny threats like bacteria and viruses -- Overpopulation : 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 -- What's going wrong today. 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).
"A book for middle-school-aged children about previous extinctions and possible threats to humans, from volcanoes, to asteroids, to pollution and diseases"--
008-012 Little, Brown and Company.
A Junior Library Guild selection.
9780759553941 0759553947
2021027527
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.
Informational works.