Scatter, Adapt, and Remember

Reading a non-fiction book was a nice change, but this was a pretty serious read. Most of the book showed the depressing and scary reality of how fragile our environment and life on our planet are. Not that there might be danger in our future, but whether it is humanity, our planet or our universe, something is going to try to kill all of us, eventually. The end of the book was the uplifting part about how there is a lot we can do in the near and more distant future to save ourselves. Right now it seems more unlikely than ever that we will, but with Annalee, I remain optimistic for our future.

In short, [b:Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction 15798335 Scatter, Adapt, and Remember How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction Annalee Newitz https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1344370745s/15798335.jpg 21521261] describes how some species survived the five great extinctions in earth's history, tells how the human race survived choke points, how certain human groups survived hard times, and finally goes on to speculate on how humanity (or at least our decedents) can survive and flourish in the future. The bad news: the universe is a very dangerous place, and there are many ways humanity could become extinct. The good news: we are very good at surviving.