Footprints : in search of future fossils /
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 th...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
[2020]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | 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 and geological, that humans are leaving behind. |
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| Physical Description: | 307 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-303). |
| ISBN: | 9780374157333 0374157332 |