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Footprints : in search of future fossils  Cover Image Book Book

Footprints : in search of future fossils / David Farrier.

Summary:

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 medition 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.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780374157333
  • ISBN: 0374157332
  • Physical Description: 307 pages ; 22 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2020.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-303).
Subject: Human ecology.
Climatic changes > Effect of human beings on.
Nature > Effect of human beings on.
Geology, Stratigraphic > Anthropocene.
Human geography.
History, Modern.
Civilization, Modern.
Future, The.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Lehigh Valley Library System.

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Allentown Public Library 304.2 FARR (Text) 34455007019447 Adult Nonfiction 2nd FL Available -
Easton Main Library 304.2 F246f (Text) 31901004422392 Adult Nonfiction Available -


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