Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils Farrier David
Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils Farrier David A profound meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene and an urgent search for the fossils--industrial, chemical, geological--that humans…
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Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils Farrier David
A profound meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene and an urgent search for the fossils--industrial, chemical, geological--that humans are leaving behindWhat will the world look like in ten thousand years--or ten million? Modern civilization has created objects and landscapes with the potential to endure through deep time, whether it is plastic polluting the oceans and nuclear waste sealed within the earth or the 30 million miles of roads spanning the planet. What kinds of stories will be told about us?In Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils, the award-winning author David Farrier explores the traces we will leave for the very distant future.
These future fossils have the potential to Our carbon could linger in the atmosphere for 100,000 years, and the remains of our cities will still exist millions of years from now as a layer in the rock.