Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction, (Hardcover)

from pieterpad

Written and edited for a pop audience presumed to be interested also In science fiction, virtual-reallty games, and disaster movies, this book Is ultimately too glib. There are promising openings - whale migration as it might Illuminate human nomadism. for example. But they aren't followed up. In...

from HenryKrinkle

Pop science light. News flash: Carbon emissions are bad! Let's build an elevator to space and colonize Titan!Yeeks.

from Richj

not up to date (by a decade) on the science; sloppy reasoning - maybe because of the point of view

from Stbalbach

Lightweight, Internet blog-style writing padded to book length, informed by pulp science fiction and technological utopianism. The concept of the title is good, but needs a historian who understands the multiple disciplines required to give a coherent Big History on this topic.

from marielreads

I love the idea for this book, but I don't think it was extremely well-executed. I found it hard to get through and took many breaks from reading it.