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Deep time reckoning : how future thinking can help earth now / Vincent Ialenti ; foreword by Marcia Bjornerud.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Ialenti, Vincent, author.
Series:
One planet.
One planet
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Radioactive waste disposal in the ground--Finland.
Radioactive waste disposal in the ground.
Radioactive waste repositories--Finland.
Radioactive waste repositories.
Environmental policy--Finland.
Environmental policy.
Nature--Effect of human beings on--Forecasting.
Nature.
Global environmental change--Forecasting.
Global environmental change.
Human ecology.
Social planning.
Geology, Stratigraphic--Anthropocene.
Geology, Stratigraphic.
Time--Social aspects.
Time.
Finland--Environmental conditions--21st century.
Finland.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]
Summary:
"How Finland's nuclear waste experts discern far future Earths, and what the rest of us non-Finns and non-experts can learn from them"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction: Embracing deep time learning
How to ride analogies across deep time
How far future worlds sprout from simple repeating patterns
How to zoom in and out on deep time from different angles
How to face deep time expertise's mortality
Conclusion: Escaping shallow time discipline.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
ISBN:
0-262-35936-7
0-262-35935-9
OCLC:
1190715513

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