{"title":"An Inconvenient Apocalpse, Environmental Collapse, Climate Crisis, and the Fate of Humanity","authors":"H. Keller","doi":"10.17348/jbrit.v17.i1.1304","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The evolutionary history of humans, known by the scientific name Homo sapiens (wise man), is the last living representative of a long fossil lineage of human-like populations. This book explores the wisdom of the current human populations, whose eight billion plus population growth and spread dominates present-day earth, and the possibility that these sheer numbers if left unchecked without the right choices, may sooner or later, destroy planet earth and perhaps go extinct. This book explores the questions posing human survival. Therefore, if you care about the survival of the most recent human species, you must read this book and consider the options that confront the future of our existence. Many other life forms that make up living components of ecosystems have gone extinct, and/or have merged with other extant species, so will human evolution follow the same time course?","PeriodicalId":17307,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.17348/jbrit.v17.i1.1304","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"Agricultural and Biological Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The evolutionary history of humans, known by the scientific name Homo sapiens (wise man), is the last living representative of a long fossil lineage of human-like populations. This book explores the wisdom of the current human populations, whose eight billion plus population growth and spread dominates present-day earth, and the possibility that these sheer numbers if left unchecked without the right choices, may sooner or later, destroy planet earth and perhaps go extinct. This book explores the questions posing human survival. Therefore, if you care about the survival of the most recent human species, you must read this book and consider the options that confront the future of our existence. Many other life forms that make up living components of ecosystems have gone extinct, and/or have merged with other extant species, so will human evolution follow the same time course?
期刊介绍:
The Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas, formerly called Sida, Contributions to Botany, publishes research in classical and modern systematic botany—including studies of anatomy, biogeography, chemotaxonomy, ecology, evolution, floristics, genetics, paleobotany, palynology, and phylogenetic systematics. Geographic coverage is global. Articles are published in either English or Spanish; an abstract is provided in both languages. All contributions are peer reviewed and frequently illustrated with maps, line drawings, and full color photographs.