Marcia Bjornerud: Timefulness | Buch

Cover: 9780691181202 | Timefulness | How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World

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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.

Über den Autor

Marcia Bjornerud is professor of geology and environmental studies at Lawrence University. She is the author of Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth and a contributing writer for Elements, the New Yorker's science and technology blog. She lives in Appleton, Wisconsin.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Fachbereich:	Geologie
Genre:	Geowissenschaften , Importe
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13:	9780691181202
ISBN-10:	0691181209
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Bjornerud, Marcia
Hersteller:	Princeton University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	225 x 151 x 23 mm
Von/Mit:	Marcia Bjornerud
Erscheinungsdatum:	11.09.2018
Gewicht:	0,411 kg