Footprints : in search of future fossils /
Farrier, David, 1979-
Footprints : in search of future fossils / David Farrier. - London : 4th Estate an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2020 - 307 pages : 22 cm
Academic
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
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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, geological--that humans are leaving behind. -- adapted from inside front dust jacket.
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Human settlements.
Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on.
Nature--Effect of human beings on.
Social prediction.
Human ecology
Geology, Stratigraphic --Anthropocene.
GF47 / FAR
307
Footprints : in search of future fossils / David Farrier. - London : 4th Estate an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, 2020 - 307 pages : 22 cm
Academic
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time;
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, geological--that humans are leaving behind. -- adapted from inside front dust jacket.
Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.
£16.99
uk.co.harpercollins.178567 Ingram Content Group
GBC003494 bnb
Human settlements.
Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on.
Nature--Effect of human beings on.
Social prediction.
Human ecology
Geology, Stratigraphic --Anthropocene.
GF47 / FAR
307