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Save the people! : halting human extinction / Stacy McAnulty ; with art by Nicole Miles.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Edition: First editionDescription: ix, 247 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780759553941
  • 0759553947
Other title:
  • Halting human extinction
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
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 Junior Library Guild selection.
Summary: "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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Children's NonFiction 576.84 M114 Checked out 07/11/2024 33111010876635
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

" Save the People is engaging, funny, affecting and delightful. You'll never have more fun learning science." --Stuart Gibbs, bestselling author of the Spy School series



"Serious science and great gags, with a bit of hope thrown in." --Steven Sheinkin, bestselling author of Bomb and Fallout



An action-packed look at past, present, and future threats to humanity's survival--with an ultimately reassuring message that humans probably have a few more millennia in us.



Scientists estimate that 99% of all species that have ever existed are now extinct. Whoa. So, it's not unreasonable to predict humans are doomed to become fossil records as well. But what could lead to our demise? Supervolcanos? Asteroids? The sun going dark? Climate change? All the above?!



Humans--with our big brains, opposable thumbs, and speedy Wi-Fi--may be capable of avoiding most of these nightmares. (The T. rex would be super jealous of our satellites.) But we're also capable of triggering world-ending events. Learning from past catastrophes may be the best way to avoid future disasters.



Packed with science, jokes, and black and white illustrations, Save the People! examines the worst-case scenarios that could (but hopefully won't) cause the greatest mass extinction--our own!

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"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-239) and index.

008-012 Little, Brown and Company.

A Junior Library Guild selection.

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