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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Farrier, David, 1979- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [2020]
Edition:	First edition.
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. NATURE / Ecology. NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection. TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues.

Table of Contents:

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.