Deep Time Reckoning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Deep Time Reckoning write by Vincent Ialenti. This book was released on 2020-09-22. Deep Time Reckoning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A guide to long-term thinking: how to envision the far future of Earth. 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.
Earth Then and Now
Earth Then and Now - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Earth Then and Now write by Fred Pearce. This book was released on 2010. Earth Then and Now available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Presents more the three hundred photographs showing how the world has changed over the past century from industrialization, urbanization, natural disasters, war, and travel and tourism.
Ww3: This Is Earth Now
Ww3: This Is Earth Now - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ww3: This Is Earth Now write by Carla Rutledge. This book was released on 2015-03-20. Ww3: This Is Earth Now available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is the long prophesied Anti-Christ now in the world? Is there a world wide mark of the beast and NEW WORLD ORDER set up or being planned now or in our near future? Are we being catapulted into WW3? Are we living in the last days? Are we actually close to, and witnessing the 2nd return of Jesus Christ? This is a collection of poems based on end times prophecy. All we read in the prophetic books of the Holy Bible is actually happening right here, right now. God's presence though we are in difficult times in the world right now, is still here. His grace and mercy hand is still extended throughout this time of tribulation and judgement. The harvest is NOW, for all who hasn't accepted Christ as their Lord and savior, rather than deal with the wrath of sin, please choose HIM!!
Origins
Origins - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Origins write by Lewis Dartnell. This book was released on 2019-05-14. Origins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A New York Times-bestselling author explains how the physical world shaped the history of our species When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes in climate that forced the transition from nomadism to farming. Mountainous terrain led to the development of democracy in Greece. Atmospheric circulation patterns later on shaped the progression of global exploration, colonization, and trade. Even today, voting behavior in the south-east United States ultimately follows the underlying pattern of 75 million-year-old sediments from an ancient sea. Everywhere is the deep imprint of the planetary on the human. From the cultivation of the first crops to the founding of modern states, Origins reveals the breathtaking impact of the earth beneath our feet on the shape of our human civilizations.
Love Earth Now
Love Earth Now - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Love Earth Now write by Cheryl Leutjen. This book was released on 2018-01-15. Love Earth Now available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How to live sustainably in an unsustainable society—and not let the world discourage your spirit. Do you find yourself wondering what on Earth you can do about the very serious environmental challenges we face on our planet today? Do you worry there’s nothing any one person can do that will make a difference? Most people say that they would like to do something to make the world a better place, but they just don’t believe they have the time, energy, money, or power to make a real difference. Love Earth Now invites us to explore our own thoughts and feelings about the challenge, and to check in with internal guidance about the waste and negative environmental impacts we see on a daily basis. While most of us can’t stop the Arctic icepack from melting, we can decide to make better choices like avoiding excessive packaging with our purchases, walking more and driving less, planting organic veggies in the front yard instead of a water-wasting lawn, and even going as green as possible at work and at home. Does your office lack a recycling and composting program? Do the research and start one yourself! Each chapter concludes with a “Diving In” section, a simple and immediate exercise, much like a guided meditation, to prompt us toward our own sustainable solutions. By practicing eco-mindfulness, we can discover that one thing we can do to make a difference today and for all our tomorrows. This is not only a source of inspiration but a sourcebook of direct actions—large and small—we can all take to ensure our children and their children’s children have a healthy future on this planet. Drawing from her experiences as an engineering geologist, environmental law attorney, small shop owner, and mindfulness practitioner, Cheryl Leutjen also reminds us about the importance of simplicity—and how all our possessions and the constant shopping for more are no better for us than they are for the planet itself, contributing to landfills and a tech-tethered society that is increasingly isolated. Both helpful and hopeful, Love Earth Now is brimming with creative suggestions that will get us closer to a sustainable lifestyle, one day at a time.
