The Culling
When Dr. Carl Sims, a young and otherwise altruistic, virologist, discovers that a plot hatched by a group of international scientists to cull, in a matter of weeks, two-thirds of the world�s population�some 4.5 billion random, innocent people, by releasing a deadly virus that kills two thirds of those it infects, in order to reduce Earth�s population from an unsustainable seven billion to two billion, what is he to do? Try to stop the conspiracy or join it? Horrific, yes, but what if this culling could prevent the extinction of some forty percent of our planet�s flora and fauna species? Or if he was certain it was the only way to prevent an even larger human die-off, incurring significantly more suffering, by the end of this century? Or were convinced it represented the only hope for humanity surviving at all? This is at the heart of this thriller, for these viruses do, in fact, exist.
Most everything that plagues mankind today�the highest concentration of atmospheric CO2 in 3 million years, escalating extinction rates, habitat loss, fishery collapses, climate change, polar and glacial ice thaws, arable land loss and desertification, aquifer depletions, ocean acidification, unprecedented air pollution, looming famine and social unrest the likes never seen before, and the very real prospect that we have initiated Earth�s sixth mass extinction event�flows from humankind�s over-consumption and excess population. Simplified, the forecast for human life can be compared to the fate of yeast introduced into grape juice which, when it is transformed into alcohol by the yeast's prolific growth, poisons itself and the culture dies off.
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Most everything that plagues mankind today�the highest concentration of atmospheric CO2 in 3 million years, escalating extinction rates, habitat loss, fishery collapses, climate change, polar and glacial ice thaws, arable land loss and desertification, aquifer depletions, ocean acidification, unprecedented air pollution, looming famine and social unrest the likes never seen before, and the very real prospect that we have initiated Earth�s sixth mass extinction event�flows from humankind�s over-consumption and excess population. Simplified, the forecast for human life can be compared to the fate of yeast introduced into grape juice which, when it is transformed into alcohol by the yeast's prolific growth, poisons itself and the culture dies off.
The Culling
When Dr. Carl Sims, a young and otherwise altruistic, virologist, discovers that a plot hatched by a group of international scientists to cull, in a matter of weeks, two-thirds of the world�s population�some 4.5 billion random, innocent people, by releasing a deadly virus that kills two thirds of those it infects, in order to reduce Earth�s population from an unsustainable seven billion to two billion, what is he to do? Try to stop the conspiracy or join it? Horrific, yes, but what if this culling could prevent the extinction of some forty percent of our planet�s flora and fauna species? Or if he was certain it was the only way to prevent an even larger human die-off, incurring significantly more suffering, by the end of this century? Or were convinced it represented the only hope for humanity surviving at all? This is at the heart of this thriller, for these viruses do, in fact, exist.
Most everything that plagues mankind today�the highest concentration of atmospheric CO2 in 3 million years, escalating extinction rates, habitat loss, fishery collapses, climate change, polar and glacial ice thaws, arable land loss and desertification, aquifer depletions, ocean acidification, unprecedented air pollution, looming famine and social unrest the likes never seen before, and the very real prospect that we have initiated Earth�s sixth mass extinction event�flows from humankind�s over-consumption and excess population. Simplified, the forecast for human life can be compared to the fate of yeast introduced into grape juice which, when it is transformed into alcohol by the yeast's prolific growth, poisons itself and the culture dies off.
Most everything that plagues mankind today�the highest concentration of atmospheric CO2 in 3 million years, escalating extinction rates, habitat loss, fishery collapses, climate change, polar and glacial ice thaws, arable land loss and desertification, aquifer depletions, ocean acidification, unprecedented air pollution, looming famine and social unrest the likes never seen before, and the very real prospect that we have initiated Earth�s sixth mass extinction event�flows from humankind�s over-consumption and excess population. Simplified, the forecast for human life can be compared to the fate of yeast introduced into grape juice which, when it is transformed into alcohol by the yeast's prolific growth, poisons itself and the culture dies off.
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Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940148304197 |
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| Publisher: | The Permanent Press |
| Publication date: | 01/15/2014 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 326 |
| File size: | 601 KB |
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