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Timefulness
- How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
- Narrated by: Tanya Eby
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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 tells 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".
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- HittsMcGee
- 2021-10-26
Informative -- Too complex to learn while jogging
This book caught my attention because I wanted to have a quick introduction to what it's like to be a geologist. The book's trailer really caught my attention.
The content of the book goes over the history of geology, the earth, climate change, extinction events, etc. Bjornerud's thesis is that the geologists' perspective, one that mixes long and short term timescales, is insightful and important for our planet.
To be honest, the book was a little too complex for me to listen to while running. I listened while jogging and most things went over my head.
I think this book might be a great listen if I were sitting still and thinking deeper.
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