Apocalypse: how catastrophe transformed our world and can forge new futures

Introduction : the end

How we misunderstood the apocalypse of human extinction

How sea level rise spurred ingenuity

How apocalypse brought people together

How apocalypses turn inequality into violence

How society collapses, but civilization survives

How post-apocalyptic societies reinvent themselves

How the apocalypse of colonialism has hidden in plain sight

How slavery created the modern world

Why we've stayed trapped in the apocalypse-and how we can find our way out

Epilogue : the beginning.