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Martin Rees
Our Final Century
Hay Festival 2003,
Claims that the end of the world is nigh are nothing new, but when Sir Martin Rees, Royal Society Professor at Cambridge, leading British cosmologist of his generation, known in his field for his caution and level-headedness suggests that our species has only a fifty-fifty chance of surviving the new century, we would do well to take notice.