The Future Is Wild: A Natural History of the FutureThe Future Is Wild is a very interesting book as it gives us a glimpse into planet earth 200 million years from Now. However, the most fascinating aspect of this book is the way in which the authors rely on knowledge of the past to construct the image of the future. This logical connection between the known past and the mysterious future pushes our imagination to the limit, and yet does not surpass the limits of our reasoning and logic. The book begins by briefly explaining the history of planet earth and the frequent patterns of evolution so as to prepare the minds of the readers, and then smoothly jumps five, one hundred and two hundred million years into the future. During these leaps many changes occur as completely new species evolve while others go extinct. Furthermore, the shape of the continents continues to change until they form a single landmass, just as they did in the distant past. It is truly remarkable how the Earth had one supercontinent during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic era about 250 million years ago, then it split into several smaller continents, and then, 200 million years in the future, these different continents will come together again to form one other. supercontinent. It's as if history repeats itself, but now it gives new species the chance to conquer the planet. Another interesting, and at the same time sad, piece of evidence on planet Earth is that the human age we live in is actually part of a period of ten thousand warm temperatures in a hundred thousand years of what they call a glacial cycle of an ice age . This is interesting because it indicates that, no matter what humans do, this interglacial period is only temporary and that it is scientifically impossible to prevent the planet from being largely covered in ice in the next five million years. This fact alone is enough to motivate humans to try to find other habitable planets to save themselves from extinction. What I really disagree with in this book is: The Future is Wild assumes that the human era will defiantly end with a period of mass extinction resulting from a combination of human influence and natural phenomena. With this statement the book eliminates any possibility of surviving the Ice Age.