Tip for Reading List: How to brace for end of the world | Explained News, The Indian Express

Tip for Reading List: How to brace for end of the world | Explained News, The Indian Express

By Express News Service |Updated: September 2, 2019 4:15:36 am

Tip for Reading List: How to brace for end of the world

End Times: A Brief Guide to the End of the World is a study of these possible catastrophes, including interviews of those trying to stop them from happening, such as NASA’s asteroid destroyers and disease prevention agencies around the world.

The book, End Times, also estimates the probability of these disasters occurring, along with the impact they could have.

When the human species eventually goes extinct, what kind of event will have caused it? US-based science reporter Bryan Walsh looks at a number of possible catastrophic scenarios — volcanic super-eruptions, asteroids, artificial intelligence, climate change, nuclear wars — as well as possible solutions to prevent eventualities.