About the book: 1977 / Modern man is only a few tens of thousands of years old. So no one knows what unprecedented phenomena could have occurred earlier, in eras tens of millions of years distant from us. Even now, not all traces of changes in the earth’s crust have been fully studied. After all, in just the last ten years it has become clear that the Earth’s rotation axis is moving, that the Earth’s magnetic pole has completely moved in the opposite direction in four hundred thousand years, that geomagnetism, having been continuously decreasing for two millennia, will completely disappear, as a result of which the entire biosphere will come under direct bombardment cosmic rays, especially under direct irradiation by highly electrically charged particles emitted by the Sun. As for our knowledge about the Earth, we know no more than if we scratched it with a fingernail. And if we do not imagine what happened in the past and do not know enough about the present of the Earth, then the future…