02488cam a2200385 4500 759916610 TxAuBib 20220718120000.0 210626s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2021027527 9780759553941 hbk. $16.99 0759553947 hbk. $16.99 (OCoLC)1260171851 LBSOR/DLC eng rda DLC OCLCO OCLCF BDX YDX TOH OCLCO BKL ON8 UAH JQW YEQ UAP IAI TxGR TxAuBib McAnulty, Stacy, author. Save the people [Book] : halting human extinction / Stacy McAnulty ; with art by Nicole Miles. Halting human extinction. First edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2022. ix, 247 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-239) and index. In the beginning: Let's first learn from the past. Earth : a very brief history -- Mass extinctions : the first four of five -- Mass extinctions, continued : the fifth one got the dinosaurs -- Homo sapiens : not the only humans -- DNA bottleneck : that time humans almost went extinct -- In the future: a few of my favorite threats. Asteroids : incominggggg! -- Supervolcanoes : the blast from below -- Disease : teeny tiny threats like bacteria and viruses -- Overpopulation : we live here, we eat here- until we don't -- War : the ultimate self-destruct button -- Sun : we're gonna need stronger SPF -- Outer space : supernovae, gamma-ray bursts, aliens -- What's going wrong today. Global warming : who turned up the heat? -- 1.5°'C to 2°C : just a wee bit warmer -- We're doomed (JK, how to save the planet people). "A book for middle-school-aged children about previous extinctions and possible threats to humans, from volcanoes, to asteroids, to pollution and diseases"-- Provided by publisher. 008-012 Little, Brown and Company. 20220718. A Junior Library Guild selection. Extinction (Biology.) Mass extinctions. Human beings Effect of environment on. Human beings Effect of climate on. Human beings Extinction. Nature Effect of human beings on. Miles, Nicole, illustrator. RV8