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 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691181209
• ISBN13: 9780691181202
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.5"