- Publisher: 4th Estate
- Year: 2020
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 316pp
- Illustrated: No
- Dimensions: 223x143mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.4kg
- ISBN: 9780008286347
- Product code: 516405
Footprints
In Search of Future Fossils
David Farrier New Hardback
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From chicken bones and plastic-lined landfill tips to millions of miles of concrete roads, this evaluation of the contemporary world imagines what fossilized traces of modern civilization might be found in the far future. It draws attention to the long-term consequences of issues such as the use of plastics, nuclear waste, and the accumulation of atmospheric carbon, and the carbon records that will be lost when the ice cores melt.
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A profound meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene and an urgent search for the fossils-industrial, chemical, geological-that humans are leaving behind
A Times Book of the Year * A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year
What will the world look like ten thousand or ten million years from now?
In Footprints, David Farrier explores what traces we will leave for the very deep future. From long-lived materials like plastic and nuclear waste, to the 50 million kilometres of roads spanning the planet, in modern times we have created numerous objects and landscapes with the potential to endure through deep time. Our carbon could linger in the atmosphere for 100,000 years, and the remains of our cities will still exist millions of years from now as a layer in the rock. These future fossils have the potential to tell remarkable stories about how we lived in the twenty-first century.
Through literature, art, and science, Footprints invites us to think about how we will be remembered in the myths, stories, and languages of our distant descendants. Travelling from the Baltic Sea to the Great Barrier Reef, and from an ice core laboratory in Tasmania to Shanghai, one of the world's biggest cities, David Farrier tells a story of a world that is changing rapidly, and with long-term consequences. Footprints will not only alter how you think about the future, it will change how you see the world today.
A Times Book of the Year * A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year
What will the world look like ten thousand or ten million years from now?
In Footprints, David Farrier explores what traces we will leave for the very deep future. From long-lived materials like plastic and nuclear waste, to the 50 million kilometres of roads spanning the planet, in modern times we have created numerous objects and landscapes with the potential to endure through deep time. Our carbon could linger in the atmosphere for 100,000 years, and the remains of our cities will still exist millions of years from now as a layer in the rock. These future fossils have the potential to tell remarkable stories about how we lived in the twenty-first century.
Through literature, art, and science, Footprints invites us to think about how we will be remembered in the myths, stories, and languages of our distant descendants. Travelling from the Baltic Sea to the Great Barrier Reef, and from an ice core laboratory in Tasmania to Shanghai, one of the world's biggest cities, David Farrier tells a story of a world that is changing rapidly, and with long-term consequences. Footprints will not only alter how you think about the future, it will change how you see the world today.
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From chicken bones and plastic-lined landfill tips to millions of miles of concrete roads, this evaluation of the contemporary world imagines what fossilized traces of modern civilization might be found in the far future. It draws attention to the long-term consequences of issues such as the use of plastics, nuclear waste, and the accumulation of atmospheric carbon, and the carbon records that will be lost when the ice cores melt.
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