Scatter, Adapt, Remember

Humankind has survived many disasters and several close calls with extinction. How have we done this?

From the preface: "Earth has been shattered by asteroid impacts, choked by extreme greenhouse gases, locked up in ice, bombarded with cosmic radiation, and ripped open by megavolcanoes so enormous they are almost unimaginable. Each of these disasters caused mass extinctions, during which more than 75 percent of the species on Earth died out. And yet every single time, living creatures carried on, adapting to survive under the harshest of conditions."

In Scatter, Adapt and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction, author Annalee Newitz gives us convincing evidence that calamity is on the horizon and also argues that it does not have to spell doom for our species. Her book chronicles what the past victories looked like. It also imagines what our path to continued existence will be.

Here's a link to the full preface.