Bibliograph

Save the people!, halting human extinction, Stacy McAnulty ; with art by Nicole Miles

Type

Label

Save the people!, halting human extinction, Stacy McAnulty ; with art by Nicole Miles

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-239) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

resource.interestAgeLevel

008-012, Little, Brown and Company

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Save the people!

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1260171851

Responsibility statement

Stacy McAnulty ; with art by Nicole Miles

Sub title

halting human extinction

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

Table Of 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)

Target audience

juvenile

resource.variantTitle

Halting human extinction

Classification