Timefulness How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World

A very lyrical, educational and thought-provoking book, pleading for a better time- and geo-literacy. I loved learning about geo-chronology. Traces of the past are in the rocks and rivers and air all around us. Everything is in motion, mountains grow at 0.5cm a year, particles in the global ocean take 1500 years to perfectly dilute. The earth is a seemingly forgiving, yet reactive and constantly adapting system. We tend to think of natural disasters as exceptions. But looking at the earth's past, we learn that they are part of cycles and reactions to atmospheric disturbances. As we move from the Holocene to the Anthropocene, a more powerful reckless humanity is suddenly at the rudder, blinded by the short-lived success of the Right Now, leading us all into a potential climate nightmare. Bjornerud adds her voice to the many advocating for a more long-term and sensible future thinking, by putting our humanity's lifespan into perspective to planet Earth's billions of years.