Imagining the future, we usually imagine ourselves embedded in a mechanized ecosystem populated by robots, apparatuses, and virtual realities. The future is rosy and technological, and we humans are the only living actors in this beautiful world. However, this idea is a big mistake, says biologist and ecologist Rob Dunn. No matter how we try to subjugate nature, we remain part of it and directly depend on it. In With or Without Us, Dunn talks about biological laws as immutable as the laws of physics, how the world around us is changing, what fate awaits the species we know and where and how new ones will form. At the same time, over the long history of its life on the planet, humanity has involuntarily exterminated wild species on which it depended or could depend, and at the same time contributed to the emergence of species that create troubles for us. Now, if we ourselves as a species want to survive, we need to learn to understand biological laws and obey them. Then our chances of living another 100, 1000 or even a million years will significantly increase. Well, if not - well, ecologists and evolutionary biologists have a pretty convincing vision of how life will develop on Earth without us... When climatic conditions move away from the parameters of an ideal niche for humans - especially when the temperature rises - the consequences can cause manifestations of violence throughout the modern world. It is assumed that an increase in external temperature affects the brain, which can result in decision-making failures, or, more specifically, a weakening of control over momentary behavioral impulses. ‹... › More heat - more quarrels and aggression.