We need all the tools we can find to fight climate change, and geologist Dr. Marcia Bjornerud offers some new perspective and insight. In this episode she talks about her book Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World, and suggests that shifting our viewpoint to understand the deep geologic past can help us understand the harm we’re doing to the planet in the present. This talk was recorded in September 2018.
Check out some of Marcia’s other writing:
- Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth
- Contributor to the New Yorker’s Science & Technology blog
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