Our final hour : a scientist's warning : how terror, error, and environmental disaster threaten humankind's future in this century-- on earth and beyond / Martin Rees.

New York : Basic Books, [2003], ©2003.

viii, 228 pages ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-208) and index.

Prologue -- Technology shock -- The doomsday clock: have we been lucky to survive this long? -- Post-2000 threats: terror and error -- Perpetrators and palliatives -- Slowing science down? -- Baseline natural hazards: asteroid impacts -- Human threats to earth -- Extreme risks: a Pascalian wager -- The doomsday philosophers -- The end of scence? -- Does our fate have cosmic significance? -- Beyond earth -- Epilogue.