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Footprints : in Search of Future Fossils

Farrier, David, 1979- Book - 2020 Adult Book / Nonfiction / Science & Nature / Conservation / Farrier, David 1 On Shelf No requests on this item Community Rating: 0 out of 5

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Traces of a haunted future -- The insatiable road -- Thin cities -- The bottle as hero -- The library of Babel -- Medusa's gaze -- The moment under the moment -- Where there should be something, there is nothing -- The little god -- Seeing the new world.
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.

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PUBLISHED
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.
Year Published: 2020
Description: 307 pages ; 22 cm
Language: English
Format: Book

ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780374157333
0374157332

SUBJECTS
Human ecology.
Climatic changes -- Effect of human beings on.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on.
Geology, Stratigraphic -- Anthropocene.
Human geography.
History, Modern.
Civilization, Modern.
Future, The.