The worse case scenario has played out. It’s a few years from now, and Earth has suffered a major catastrophe – be it an asteroid impact, a nuclear holocaust or merely a global pandemic. Doomsday has arrived. In Part II of our two-part series, you’ll find out how the planet – and its mantle of remaining life – carries on. So humans are gone: what next?
Also, why mass extinctions are helpful to evolution, and if a few people do survive Armegeddon, how do they begin to put human culture back together?
Guests:
- Alan Weisman – author of The World Without Us
- Peter Ward – Paleontologist at the University of Washington, Seattle and author of Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future
- Carol Tavris – Social psychologist and author of Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me)
- Hugh Gusterson – Anthropologist, George Mason University
