The Fate of the Species: Why the Human Race May Cause Its Own Extinction and How We Can Stop It

By Fred Guterl

Categories: Science & Math

The Fate of the Species: Why the Human Race May Cause Its Own Extinction and How We Can Stop It (2012) is a book by science journalist Fred Guterl, executive editor of Scientific American. Guterl examines threats that could endanger humanity, including pandemic disease, climate change, mass extinctions, ecosystem collapse and runaway technology. He asks which risks are most serious and what people and governments can still do to reduce them.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “This week's "Book of the Week" is "Fate of the Species" by Fred Guterl. In elegant, compelling prose, the author, who is one of the great science journalists of today, lays out the megachallenges we confront -- super viruses, climate change, disappearing species -- it is enough to make even an optimist like me very worried.”