Ten Billion
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Ten Billion by Stephen Emmott
A VINTAGE ORIGINAL Just over two hundred years ago, there were one billion humans on Earth. There are now over seven billion of us. And, sometime this century, the world population will reach at least ten billion. Deforestation. Desertification. Species extinction. Global warming. Growing threats to food and water. The driving issues of our times are the result of one huge problem: Us. As the population continues to grow, our problems will increase. And this means that every way we look at it, a planet of ten billion people is likely to be a nightmare. Stephen Emmott, a scientist whose lab is at the forefront of research into complex natural systems, sounds the alarm. TEN BILION is a snapshot of our planet, and our species, approaching a crisis, and a stark analysis of where this leaves us. TEN BILION is not another climate book. TEN BILION is a book about us.Microsoft Research's chief of computational science is Stephen Emmott. He directs a wide scientific research program in Cambridge, UK, that includes an interdisciplinary team of new kinds of scientists and a new form of laboratory, pioneering new techniques to solving basic scientific challenges. Plant biology, climatology, biogeochemistry, terrestrial and marine ecology, and conversation biology, as well as the new fields of programming life and artificial photosynthesis, are all part of his lab's research. Stephen is also a Distinguished Fellow of the UK National Foundation for Science, Technology and the Arts, as well as a Visiting Professor of Computational Science at the University of Oxford and a Visiting Professor of Biological Computation at University College London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780345806475 |
| ISBN 10 | 0345806476 |
| Title | Ten Billion |
| Author | Stephen Emmott |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2013-09-10 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Guardian First Book Award 2013 |
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