{"product_id":"9781841884035-secondhand-end-times-a-brief-guide-to-the-end-of-the-world","title":"End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World","description":"Could an incoming asteroid cause human   beings to go the way of the dinosaurs? Will artificial intelligence make the   world a better place-or make human beings obsolescent? Could a massive   volcanic supereruption thrust the planet into a killer Ice Age? What would   happen the day after a nuclear war? Bryan Walsh, a 15-year veteran reporter   and editor of  TIME , has written a vital work of popular science and   investigative journalism that will peel back the layers of complexity around   the unthinkable - the end of humankind.         In  END TIMES , Walsh provides a stunning panoramic analysis of the   catastrophic dangers of human extinction that emerge from nature and those of   our own making: the rising danger of a nuclear war, and the shockingly weak   government protocols in place to prevent it; the climate change that   threatens to burn the future even as our politicians deny and delay;   ground-breaking emerging technologies like gene editing, tools that could   save the world-or destroy it. Walsh examines the impact of these disasters   were they to happen, the true probability of these world-ending catastrophes,   and the best strategies for prevention, all pulled from his rigorous and   deeply thoughtful reporting and research.         END TIMES  may be dark, but it does not wallow in doom. Walsh goes into   the room with the men and women whose job it is to imagine the unimaginable.   He includes stories and colourful profiles of those on the front lines of   prevention, actively working to head off existential threats in biotechnology   labs and boardrooms. Guided by Walsh's evocative, page-turning prose, we   follow the likes of the asteroid hunters at NASA and the disease detectives   on the trail of the next mass killer.         Walsh examines the possibility of apocalypse in all forms, employing   everything from geology to astronomy, bionics, economics and even human   psychology to determine how we can apocalypse-proof our species. In the end,   it will be the breadth of our knowledge, the depth of our imagination, and   our will to survive that will decide the future.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48888984371419,"sku":"9781841884035-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/671d3c7f-e41e-4be4-93cf-10ab2628fea0.jpg?v=1781791838","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9781841884035-secondhand-end-times-a-brief-guide-to-the-end-of-the-world","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}