End Game: Tipping Point for Planet Earth? - Softcover

Professor Anthony Barnosky; Hadly

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0007548176 ISBN 13: 9780007548170

Publisher: William Collins, 2016

Synopsis

overconsumption / population growth / dwindling resources / climate change / disease / contamination / storms / thirst / war ... will the struggle to simply stay alive become humanity s future rather than its past?

World-renowned scientists Tony Barnosky and Liz Hadly ask: what happens when vast population growth endangers the world s food supplies? Or our water? Our oil, space or environment? What happens if these all become critical at once? End Game explores the origins of disease in densely populated areas of West Africa, witnesses raging fires in Colorado and explains how drought-induced food shortages are already causing conflicts in the Sudan, Gaza Strip and Iraq. Finally, it asks: what combination of problems will hasten the sixth mass extinction? We still have the chance to avoid this tipping point and secure our future. But this unique opportunity will be gone within ten-to-twenty years. End Game is the call to action we need.

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Review:

Just because we have collectively lost interest in the doom clock doesn't mean it has stopped ticking ... Barnosky and Hadly are serious players ... When tipping points are reached, the change can be violent as well as sudden ... you cannot fault the authors' determination to try to warn us Newsweek

In End Game , academics Anthony Barnosky and Elizabeth Hadly eloquently lay out the ecological perils we face, deftly showing how they might segue into food and water shortages, disease, resource wars and mass migrations ... Now we know the challenges for the 21st century; we just need to act Fred Pearce, New Scientist

--Scientist

About the Author:

Professors Anthony D. Barnosky and Elizabeth A. Hadly have been married and working together for nearly 25 years to uncover the scientific underpinnings that will help ensure a viable future for humanity.

Anthony Barnosky is the Professor of Integrative Biology, University of California. A renowned paleobiologist, he has spent 30 years conducting research related to past planetary changes, and what they mean for forecasting the changes to come on Planet Earth in the next few decades.

Elizabeth Hadly is the Chair of Environmental Biology at Stanford University. She has spent more than 25 years studying environmental change in landscapes all over the world, conducting primary research on how living and fossil species can reveal the ways in which current human impacts are influencing ecological systems.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Collins
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0007548176
• ISBN 13: 9780007548170
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272