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Title: Culling
Author: Robert Johnson
Narrator: Charles Carroll
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13 hrs 58 mins
Language: English
Release date: 2014-01-24
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Genres: Science Fiction & Fantasy, Science Fiction
Publisher's Summary:
Carl Sims, a young virologist, discovers a plot hatched by a group of international scientists to cull, in a matter of weeks, two-thirds of the worlds populationsome 4.5 billion peopleby releasing a deadly virus. Their goal is to reduce Earths population from an unsustainable seven billion to two billion. What is he to do? Try to stop the conspiracy, or join it?
Its horrific, yes, but what if this culling could prevent the extinction of some 40 percent of the planets flora and fauna? Or if he was certain it was the only way to prevent an even larger human die-off, incurring significantly more suffering, by the end of this century? Or if he were convinced it represented the only hope for humanity surviving at all? This is at the heart of this thriller, for these viruses do, in fact, exist.
Most everything that plagues mankind todaythe highest concentration of atmospheric CO in three million years, escalating extinction rates, habitat loss, fishery collapses, climate change, polar and glacial ice thaws, arable land loss, desertification, aquifer depletions, ocean acidification, unprecedented air pollution, looming famine, and social unreststems from overconsumption which, unchecked, will lead to Earths sixth mass extinction event.
Robert Johnsons first novel tackles an issue that most in the media, the arts, and entertainment industryeven the environmental communityare afraid to discuss directly: overpopulation. Despite the potential for despair or preachy diatribes, the gravity of the issues is woven into the story with plenty of colorful characters, gallows humor, and a suspenseful plot that unravels across continents, making for an entertaining and thought-provoking debut.New York Journal of Books