The History of Great Extinctions

Several times throughout the history of the Earth, the animal kingdom of the planet nearly disappeared completely, and each time a sharp change in climate played a decisive role in a planetary-scale Armageddon. In his book, Peter Brennan discusses the... "big five" mass extinctions. Traveling the world, from South Africa to the Palisades of New York, the author witnessed the traces of past cataclysms and met determined people, geologists and paleontologists, who, with the meticulousness of criminalists, tried to reconstruct the history of our planet from the clues left in the ground. But "The History of Great Extinctions" is not just a story about the Earth's past, but also an attempt to foresee its future. Today, the climate is changing as rapidly and radically as during the times of mass extinctions. And, after conversing with many leading specialists of our time, Brennan attempts to find answers to the questions of how much resilience Earth has left and whether it is still possible to avoid the sixth and possibly last apocalypse that will directly affect humanity?