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Title Statement | Save the people!: halting human extinction / Stacy McAnulty ; with art by Nicole Miles. |
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Alternative Title(s) | Halting human extinction |
Author | McAnulty, Stacy |
Additional Contributors | Miles, Nicole |
Publication | ©2022New York: Little, Brown and Company,2022. |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | ix, 247 pages |
ISBN | 9780759553941 0759553947 |
Other Number | 4342304 |
Contents | 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 -- Asteroids : incominggggg! -- Supervolcanoes : the blast from below -- Disease : teeny tiny threats like bacteria and virus -- 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 : supernovas, gamma-ray bursts, aliens -- Global warming : who turned up the heat? -- 1.5 to 2À C : just a wee bit warmer -- We're doomed (JK, how to save the planet [struck off] people). |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary | A book for middle-school-aged children about previous extinctions and possible threats to humans, from volcanoes, to asteroids, to pollution and diseases. |
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By Topic | Human beings--Juvenile literature--Effect of climate on |
Human beings--Juvenile literature--Effect of environment on | |
Mass extinctions--Juvenile literature | |
Nature--Juvenile literature--Effect of human beings on | |
Extinction (Biology)--Juvenile literature | |
Human beings--Juvenile literature--Extinction |