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“Save the Peopleis engaging, funny, affecting and delightful. Youll never have more fun learning science.”
Stuart Gibbs, bestselling author of the Spy School series
“Serious science and great gags, with a bit of hope thrown in.
Steven Sheinkin, author ofBombandFallout
Stacy McAnulty, the bestselling author ofTheMiscalculations of Lightning GirlandtheOur Universe series, delivers an action-packed look at past extinction and current threats to humanity’s survival )with the ultimately reassuring message that humans probably have a few more millennia in us.
Scientists estimate that 99% of all species that have ever existed are now extinct. Whoa. So, it’s not unreasonable to predict humans are doomed to become fossil records as well. But what could lead to our demise? Supervolcanos? Asteroids?Thesun going dark? Climate change? Alltheabove?!
Humanswith our big brains, opposable thumbs, and speedy Wi-Fimay be capable of avoiding most ofthese nightmares. (TheT. rexwould be super jealous of our satellites.) But we’re also capable of triggering world-ending events. Learning from past catastrophes may bethebest way to avoid future disasters.
Packed with science, jokes, and black and white illustrations,SavethePeople!examinestheworst-case scenarios that could (but hopefully wont) causethegreatest mass extinctionour own!