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• Title:Save the people! : halting human extinction / Stacy McAnulty ; with art by Nicole Miles.
  
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• Variant Title:Halting human extinction
  
• Author/Creator:McAnulty, Stacy, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Miles, Nicole, illustrator.
  
• Published/Created:New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, Hachette Book Group, 2022.
  ©2022
  

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  • Location:EDUCATION LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QH78 .M325 2022
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects: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.
  
• Subject(s): Extinction (Biology)
  Mass extinctions.
  Human beings--Effect of environment on.
  Human beings--Effect of climate on.
  Nature--Effect of human beings on.
  Human beings--Extinction.
  
• Edition:First edition.
  
• Description:ix, 247 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
  
• Summary:"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.
  Scientists estimate that 99% of all species that have ever existed are now extinct. So it is not unreasonable to predict humans are doomed to become fossil records as well. But what could lead to our demise? Supervolcanos? Asteroids? The sun going dark? Climate change? Humans may be capable of avoiding most of these nightmares. But we're also capable of triggering world-ending events. McAnulty examines the worst-case scenarios that could (but hopefully won't) cause the greatest mass extinction-- our own! -- adapted from jacket
  
• Target Audience:008-012 Little, Brown and Company.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780759553941 hardcover
  0759553947 hardcover
  9780759553989 electronic book
  
• Contents:In the beginning: Let's first learn from the past. 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
  In the future: a few of my favorite threats. 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
  What's going wrong today. Global warming : who turned up the heat?
  1.5°'C to 2°C : just a wee bit warmer
  We're doomed (JK, how to save the planet people).