Comments on: Book review – Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World

By: Book review – A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us About the Destiny of the Human Species | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 10:12:25 +0000

[…] as Dunn’s examples are, some notable laws and principles are missing. What about our lack of awareness of deep time or the (originally) fisheries science concept of shifting baseline syndrome? Arguably, both of […]

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By: Notes from Deep Time - 3 Quarks Daily

Notes from Deep Time - 3 Quarks Daily — Sun, 06 Mar 2022 15:38:23 +0000

[…] vast stretches of time over which geological processes play out is not easy. We are, in the words of geologist Marcia Bjornerud, naturally chronophobic. In Notes from Deep Time, author Helen Gordon presents a diverse and […]

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By: Book review – Notes from Deep Time: A Journey Through Our Past and Future Worlds | The Inquisitive Biologist

Fri, 04 Mar 2022 12:50:55 +0000

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By: Book review – Limits: Why Malthus Was Wrong and Why Environmentalists Should Care | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 12 Oct 2020 10:38:37 +0000

[…] to think that if only we do this right, we can keep this show on the road. Rarely do they have the timefulness and deep time reckoning to extrapolate their forecasts beyond the immediate future and ask […]

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By: Book review – The Journeys of Trees: A Story about Forests, People, and the Future | The Inquisitive Biologist

Tue, 15 Sep 2020 14:15:48 +0000

[…] these examples, St. George cultivates a mindset that Marcia Bjornerud has called “timefulness“. For me, this is the rare, vertigo-inducing sensation where you find yourself peering down […]

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By: Book review – Underland: A Deep Time Journey | The Inquisitive Biologist

Book review – Underland: A Deep Time Journey | The Inquisitive Biologist — Fri, 17 May 2019 13:19:36 +0000

[…] pales into insignificance, Macfarlane resists apathy. Much like Bjornerud (see my review of Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World), Macfarlane hopes that “deep time awareness might help us see ourselves as a part of a web […]

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By: Book review – The Oceans: A Deep History | The Inquisitive Biologist

Book review – The Oceans: A Deep History | The Inquisitive Biologist — Tue, 25 Sep 2018 08:22:04 +0000

[…] Throughout the book, Rohling in passing mentions the important messages deep history has for our current times, but a book like this of course has to have a chapter explicitly dealing with current climate change. Looking at deep history, what makes the last 200 years different is not necessarily the amount of carbon we have so far released through the burning of fossil fuels, it is the speed. Conditions on our planet are changing faster than any time before, based on our reconstructions from Earth’s deep history, with the rate of change rivalling or exceeding even that seen during the end-Permian mass extinction. The two hundred years since the Industrial Revolution may seem like ages to humans, but they are a blip in deep history. Our inability to conceptualise deep time is a huge problem, something that is discussed in-depth in Bjornerud’s book Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World. […]

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