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Billions and Billions

Disciplines:
technology
science
environment
sagan

Summary

Carl Sagan's posthumous 1997 essay collection — on science, technology, environmental concerns, and the meaning of human existence — including his final essay written while dying of cancer.

Core Contribution

Creates the final scientific humanist meditation — Sagan's last essays address climate, nuclear weapons, population, and his own dying with the combination of scientific rigor and humanist concern that defined his career.

Historical Influences

Cosmos

Intellectual Lineage

Carl Sagan Random House

Allied Works

Pale Blue Dot The Demon-Haunted World

Contemporaries & Peers

No recorded contemporaries.

Minds Influenced

Environmental science communication

Intellectual Posterity

Billions and Billions Sagan's final meditation

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