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Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World by Marcia Bjornerud

4.0

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Very good book, well-written and engaging. Would make an excellent Geology 101 text I think. I found the time perspective it introduces compelling — and the opposite of how society and government currently operate. The analysis of current technical proposals for dealing with global was damning. I came away fully convinced that the only way to head off a climate catastrophe in the next few decades will require radical changes to how we consume carbon fuels.

We're so fucked.