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

by Marcia Bjornerud

Book Overview

Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survival

Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales of our planet's long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating. The lifespan of Earth can 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069120263X
• ISBN13: 9780691202631
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.4"