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Sto caricando le informazioni... Footprints (originale 2020; edizione 2020)di David Farrier (Autore)
Informazioni sull'operaFootprints: In Search of Future Fossils di David Farrier (2020)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. David Farrier is a Scottish professor of literature and takes a journey around the world considering what trace elements future archaeologists might discover of our civilization millions of years hence. I hesitate to give away too much because that is a plot spoiler, but for example there are the usual suspects like plastics and radiation. He makes a case the longest lived artifacts will be in space such as junk on the moon or in geosynchronous orbit, also oil and gas bore holes in areas of stable geography since they punch down far beneath the surface making them immune from erosion. His writing is informed by literature and there are quite a few allusions to classic novels and poetry. It is oddly comforting to think along these very long time scales as it makes what is happening in the shorter time of global warming, say the next 100k years, seem less momentous. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
The author surveys the traces we will leave for peoples in the very distant future. He shows that modern civilization has created objects and landscapes with the potential to endure through deep time, including the plastic polluting the oceans, the nuclear waste entombed within the earth, and the thirty million miles of paved roads spanning the planet. This is his meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene, and an urgent search for fossils--industrial, chemical, geological--that humans are leaving behind. -- adapted from inside front dust jacket. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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