The Culling Audiobook (Free)

Carl Sims, a young virologist, discovers a plot hatched by agroup of international researchers to cull, in a matter of weeks, two-thirds ofthe world’s population-some 4.5 billion people-by releasing a deadly virus.Their goal is to reduce Earth’s population from an unsustainable seven billionto two billion. What’s he to accomplish? Try to prevent the conspiracy, or sign up for it?

It’s horrific, yes, but what if this culling could preventthe extinction of some 40 percent of the planet’s flora and fauna? Or if he about The Culling wascertain it had been the only way to prevent a straight larger human die-off, incurringsignificantly even more suffering, by the end of this hundred years? Or if he wereconvinced it symbolized the only expect humanity surviving in any way? This isat the heart of this thriller, for these viruses do, actually, exist.

Most anything that plagues mankind today-the highest focus of atmospheric CO? in three million years, escalating extinction rates, habitatloss, fishery collapses, weather modification, polar and glacial glaciers thaws, arableland reduction, desertification, aquifer depletions, ocean acidification,unprecedented polluting of the environment, looming famine, and sociable unrest-stems from overconsumption which, unchecked, will result in Earth’s sixth mass extinction event.