POCKET GUIDE TO PLANETARY PERIL (HB)

From Atomic Bomb to Zombie Apocalypse (via Black Holes, Killer Diseases and Space Invaders), this book explores twenty-six doomsday scenarios that could spell the end of humanity as we know it. Using scientific facts and entertaining anecdotes, Professor Jakob Thoma (a global expert in long-term risks and sustainable finance) explains how likely it is that we will survive climate change or be turned into grey goo by nanobots – and what we can do about it. Funny, eye-opening and charmingly illustrated, this is a book for doomsayers, cynics and pessimists everywhere.