
Timefulness
How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
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Narrated by:
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Tanya Eby
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By:
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Marcia Bjornerud
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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Excellent
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Geological concepts made simple
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Enlightening and encourage moe study of geology
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SOOOO GOOOOD
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3rd time through 🧐
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Terrible Narration
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From the limited amount I heard the book might have been informative. The author is not the best prose stylist and there was some awkward word usage but the topic is important. Might be a lot better on paper or as a Kindle book.
The narration was so bad I put it aside
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Great read for geologist
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Puts things in perspective
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