Timefulness : : How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World / / Marcia Bjornerud.
Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survivalFew of us have any conception of the enormous timescales in our planet's long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating for ourselves. The passage of ni...
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Bjornerud, Marcia, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Timefulness : How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World / Marcia Bjornerud. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource (224 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: The Allure of Timelessness -- A Call for Timefulness -- An Atlas of Time -- The Pace of the Earth -- Changes in the Air -- Great Accelerations -- Timefulness, Utopian and Scientific -- Epilogue -- APPENDIXES -- I. Simplified Geologic Timescale -- II. Duration and Rate of Earth Phenomena -- III. Environmental Crises in Earth's History: Causes and Consequences -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survivalFew of us have any conception of the enormous timescales in our planet's long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating for ourselves. The passage of nine days, which is how long a drop of water typically stays in Earth's atmosphere, is something we can easily grasp. But spans of hundreds of years-the time a molecule of carbon dioxide resides in the atmosphere-approach the limits of our comprehension. Our everyday lives are shaped by processes that vastly predate us, and our habits will in turn have consequences that will outlast us by generations. Timefulness reveals how knowing the rhythms of Earth's deep past and conceiving of time as a geologist does can give us the perspective we need for a more sustainable future.Marcia Bjornerud shows how geologists chart the planet's past, explaining how we can determine the pace of solid Earth processes such as mountain building and erosion and comparing them with the more unstable rhythms of the oceans and atmosphere. These overlapping rates of change in the Earth system-some fast, some slow-demand a poly-temporal worldview, one that Bjornerud calls "timefulness." She explains why timefulness is vital in the Anthropocene, this human epoch of accelerating planetary change, and proposes sensible solutions for building a more time-literate society.This compelling book presents a new way of thinking about our place in time, enabling us to make decisions on multigenerational timescales. The lifespan of Earth may seem unfathomable compared to the brevity of human existence, but this view of time denies our deep roots in Earth's history-and the magnitude of our effects on the planet. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Sep 2021) Nature Effect of human beings on. Sustainability. SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geology. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606591 print 9780691181202 https://doi.org/10.23943/9780691184531?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691184531 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691184531/original |
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