Doomsday Scenarios

by Noah Berlatsky (Editor)

Overview

This fascinating collection of essays offer opposing opinions on whether predictions of the end of the world should be taken seriously. Readers will evaluate religiously based ideas of the end of the world, and the ways humans might bring about or prevent global disasters. Will global warming cause a planetwide catastrophe? Does artificial intelligence pose a doomsday threat? Can psychological factors explain apocalyptic doomsday cults? Is a nuclear apocalypse is likely? Questions such as these are debated for readers so that they can form their own intelligent opinions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780737757224
Publisher:	Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Publication date:	07/23/2011
Series:	Opposing Viewpoints Series
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	14 - 17 Years

About the Author

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Editorial Reviews

Review: Doomsday Scenarios "As always in the Opposing Viewpoints series, there are voices from many sides of the debate."—Booklist, April 2002

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