This fascinating collection of essays offer opposing opinions on whether predictions of the end of the world should be taken seriously. Readers will evaluate religiously based ideas of the end of the world, and the ways humans might bring about or prevent global disasters. Will global warming cause a planetwide catastrophe? Does artificial intelligence pose a doomsday threat? Can psychological factors explain apocalyptic doomsday cults? Is a nuclear apocalypse is likely? Questions such as these are debated for readers so that they can form their own intelligent opinions.