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An edition of Timefulness (2018)

Timefulness

how thinking like a geologist can help save the world

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Explains why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to planetary survival and offers suggestions for how to create a more time-literate society.

"Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survival: Few 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."--Dust jacket.

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English
Pages
208

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Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
Mar 01, 2021, Highbridge Audio and Blackstone Publishing
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Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
2020, Princeton University Press
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Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
2018, Princeton University Press
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Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
Sep 11, 2018, HighBridge Audio
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First Sentence

"For children who grew up in wintry climates, few experiences in life will ever elicit the same pure joy as a Snow Day."

Table of Contents

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. 1. Simplified geologic timescale ; 2. Durations and rates of earth phenomena ; 3. Environmental crises in earth's history : causes and consequences.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-202) and index.

Copyright Date
2018

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
304.2/3
Library of Congress
GF98 .B56 2018, QE508.B538 2018

The Physical Object

Pagination
208 pages
Number of pages
208

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26978193M
ISBN 10
0691181209
ISBN 13
9780691181202
LCCN
2018945515, bl2018184508
OCLC/WorldCat
1028521665

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