Save the people! : halting human extinction

McAnulty, Stacy, author.

First edition.

Book

New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022.

©2022

ix, 247 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm

"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.

Ages 8-12. Little, Brown and Company.

Extinction (Biology) -- Juvenile literature.

Mass extinctions -- Juvenile literature.

Human beings -- Effect of environment on -- Juvenile literature.

Human beings -- Effect of climate on -- Juvenile literature.

Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Juvenile literature.

Human beings -- Extinction -- Juvenile literature.

Human ecology -- Juvenile literature.

Informational works.

Illustrated works.

Miles, Nicole, illustrator.

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 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 -- Global warming: who turned up the heat? -- 1.5-2° Celsius: just a wee bit warmer -- We're doomed (JK, how to save the people).

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