TY - BOOK AU - McAnulty,Stacy AU - Miles,Nicole TI - Save the people!: halting human extinction SN - 9780759553941 PY - 2022/// CY - New York PB - Little, Brown and Company KW - Extinction (Biology) KW - Juvenile literature KW - Mass extinctions KW - Human beings KW - Effect of environment on KW - Effect of climate on KW - Nature KW - Effect of human beings on KW - Extinction KW - Informational works KW - lcgft N1 - 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); 008-012; Little, Brown and Company N2 - "A book for middle-school-aged children about previous extinctions and possible threats to humans, from volcanoes, to asteroids, to pollution and diseases"-- ER -