End of the world?(Our Final Hour: How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future in this Century, On Earth and Beyond)(Book Review) From: Issues in Science and Technology | Date: September 22, 2003| Author: Park, Robert L. | COPYRIGHT 2003 National Academy of Sciences. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Our Final Hour: How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future in this Century, On Earth and Beyond, by Martin Rees. New York: Basic Books, 2003, 228 pp.

The lights in my office at the University of Maryland blinked once and then went out. It was 4:11 p.m. on Thursday, August 14. The Great Blackout of 2003 had just turned off the lights across the entire northeastern United States and parts of Canada. It was the most extensive electrical blacko...

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