Deep time reckoning : how future thinking can help Earth now
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020].
ISBN
9780262539265, 0262539268
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LC Subjects
Environmental policy -- Finland.
Finland -- Environmental conditions -- 21st century.
Geology, Stratigraphic -- Anthropocene.
Global environmental change -- Forecasting.
Human ecology.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Forecasting.
Radioactive waste disposal in the ground -- Finland.
Radioactive waste repositories -- Finland.
Social planning.
Time -- Social aspects.
Finland -- Environmental conditions -- 21st century.
Geology, Stratigraphic -- Anthropocene.
Global environmental change -- Forecasting.
Human ecology.
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Forecasting.
Radioactive waste disposal in the ground -- Finland.
Radioactive waste repositories -- Finland.
Social planning.
Time -- Social aspects.
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Published
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020].
Format
Book
Physical Desc
xviii, 186 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
ISBN
9780262539265, 0262539268
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-178) and index.
Description
"How Finland's nuclear waste experts discern far future Earths, and what the rest of us non-Finns and non-experts can learn from them"--,Provided by publisher.
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"We live on a planet careening toward environmental collapse that will be largely brought about by our own actions. And yet we struggle to grasp the scale of the crisis, barely able to imagine the effects of climate change just ten years from now, let alone the multi-millennial timescales of Earth's past and future life span. In this book, Vincent Ialenti offers a guide for envisioning the planet's far future--to become, as he terms it, more skilled deep time reckoners. The challenge, he says, is to learn to inhabit a longer now. Ialenti takes on two overlapping crises: the Anthropocene, our current moment of human-caused environmental transformation; and the deflation of expertise--today's popular mockery and institutional erosion of expert authority. The second crisis, he argues, is worsening the effects of the first. Hearing out scientific experts who study a wider time span than a Facebook timeline is key to tackling our planet's emergency. Astrophysicists, geologists, historians, evolutionary biologists, climatologists, archaeologists, and others can teach us the art of long-termism. For a case study in long-term thinking, Ialenti turns to Finland's nuclear waste repository "Safety Case" experts. These scientists forecast far future glaciations, climate changes, earthquakes, and more, over the coming tens of thousands--or even hundreds of thousands or millions--of years. They are not pop culture "futurists" but data-driven, disciplined technical experts, using the power of patterns to construct detailed scenarios and quantitative models of the far future. This is the kind of time literacy we need if we are to survive the Anthropocene." -- Publisher's description
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Ialenti, V. (2020). Deep time reckoning: how future thinking can help Earth now . The MIT Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ialenti, Vincent. 2020. Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now. The MIT Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Ialenti, Vincent. Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now The MIT Press, 2020.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Ialenti, Vincent. Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now The MIT Press, 2020.
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