The Resource Timefulness : how thinking like a geologist can help save the world, Marcia Bjornerud
Timefulness : how thinking like a geologist can help save the world, Marcia Bjornerud
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- Summary
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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."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 208 pages
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780691181202
- Label
- Timefulness : how thinking like a geologist can help save the world
- Title
- Timefulness
- Title remainder
- how thinking like a geologist can help save the world
- Statement of responsibility
- Marcia Bjornerud
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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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."--Jacket
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- YDX
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- Bjornerud, Marcia
- Dewey number
- 304.2/3
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
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- GF98
- QE508
- LC item number
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- .B56 2018
- .B56 2018
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
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- Geological time
- Human ecology
- Time perception
- Nature
- Geology, Stratigraphic
- Sustainability
- Label
- Timefulness : how thinking like a geologist can help save the world, Marcia Bjornerud
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-202) and index
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- 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
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- 208 pages
- Isbn
- 9780691181202
- Lccn
- 2018945515
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- unmediated
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- illustrations
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- (OCoLC)on1028521665
- Label
- Timefulness : how thinking like a geologist can help save the world, Marcia Bjornerud
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-202) and index
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- 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
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- 208 pages
- Isbn
- 9780691181202
- Lccn
- 2018945515
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- illustrations
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- (OCoLC)on1028521665
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