Today, many books, articles, and films are devoted to the “end of the world.” Scientists, writers, and directors consider various scenarios for this highly exceptional event in Earth’s life—from meeting a comet or meteorite to changes in the planet’s magnetic poles. But the new is often the old forgotten— and the book by the famous astronomer and science popularizer C. Flammarion, “The Destruction of the World,” is devoted precisely to this topic. You have a unique opportunity to see how much—over nearly one and a half centuries—people’s views on this problem have changed.