Timefulness : How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World /

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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bjornerud, Marcia (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Sustainability.
Geological time.
Human ecology.
Time perception.
Geology, Stratigraphic > Anthropocene.
Time Perception
Homme > Influence sur la nature.
Durabilité de l'environnement.
Géochronologie.
Écologie humaine.
Perception du temps.
Anthropocène.
human ecology.
Holocene.
SCIENCE > Earth Sciences > General.
SCIENCE > Physics > Geophysics.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
Geology, Stratigraphic.
Earth (Planet) > History.
Terre > Histoire.
Earth (Planet)
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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