End Times
- Author Bryan Walsh
- Narrator Bryan Walsh, Corey Carthew
- Publisher Orion
- Run Time 12 hours and 29 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Impact of science and technology on society, Science: general issues.
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What to expect
In End Times, Walsh provides a stunning panoramic analysis of the catastrophic dangers of human extinction that emerge from nature and those of our own making: the rising danger of a nuclear war, and the shockingly weak government protocols in place to prevent it; the climate change that threatens to burn the future even as our politicians deny and delay; ground-breaking emerging technologies like gene editing, tools that could save the world-or destroy it. Walsh examines the impact of these disasters were they to happen, the true probability of these world-ending catastrophes, and the best strategies for prevention, all pulled from his rigorous and deeply thoughtful reporting and research.
End Times may be dark, but it does not wallow in doom. Walsh goes into the room with the men and women whose job it is to imagine the unimaginable. He includes stories and colourful profiles of those on the front lines of prevention, actively working to head off existential threats in biotechnology labs and boardrooms. Guided by Walsh's evocative, page-turning prose, we follow the likes of the asteroid hunters at NASA and the disease detectives on the trail of the next mass killer.
Walsh examines the possibility of apocalypse in all forms, employing everything from geology to astronomy, bionics, economics and even human psychology to determine how we can apocalypse-proof our species. In the end, it will be the breadth of our knowledge, the depth of our imagination, and our will to survive that will decide the future.
Critics Review
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TIME MAGAZINE, “11 New Books to Read in August!”
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ECO WATCH, “Best Environmental Books of August”
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A harrowing chronicle of a range of threats that could bring about human extinction in the not-so-distant future.
The Washington Post -
Walsh does wonders in unknotting the dizzying agendas fueling many of the existential risks explored in END TIMES.
Scientific Inquirer -
Instead of freaking out, read End Times. It’s a wise and weirdly hopeful journey into civilization’s darkest nightmares.
Jeff Goodell, author of The Water Will Come -
It’s not easy thinking about all the ways the world can end, let alone writing a whole book about them. But Bryan Walsh has managed the feat and then some, delivering a book that’s as analytically astute as it is terrifically written. It takes a special kind of writer to pull this off, and in Bryan Walsh we found him.
Ian Bremmer, New York Times bestselling author of Us Versus Them: The Failure of Globalism
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