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On Time and Water.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Magnason, Andri Snær.
- Standardized Title:
- Um tímann og vatnið. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Climatic changes.
- Global warming.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (347 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- La Vergne : Open Letter, 2022.
- Summary:
- "In the next hundred years, the nature of water on Earth will undergo a fundamental change. Glaciers will melt, the level of the sea will rise, and its acidity will change more than it has in the past 50 million years. These changes will affect all life on earth, everyone that we know, and everyone that we love. It is more complex than the mind can comprehend, greater than all of our past experience, bigger than language. What words can grasp an issue of this magnitude?In an attempt to capture this vast issue, Andri Snær Magnason takes both a personal and a scientific approach--weaving his way through climate science via ancient legends about sacred cows, stories of ancestors and relatives, and interviews with the Dalai Lama. The resulting narrative is at once a travel story, a world history, and a reminder to live in harmony with future generations"-- from the publisher
- Contents:
- Cover
- Copyright
- Title Page
- Contents
- May you live in interesting times
- A little treasure
- A future conversation
- A projection
- The all-encompassing silence of God's great expanse
- Writer's block
- Telling stories
- The words we do not understand
- Searching for the Holy Cow
- A visit from a holy man
- A revelation from the wrong god
- Back in time
- Crocodile dreams
- A mythology for the present
- N 64° 35.378', w 16° 44.691'
- The mother of the universe, white as rime
- Farewell to the white giants
- The god in the steam engine
- Just more words
- See the blue sea
- Maybe everything will be all right
- Interview with the Dalai Lama, in his guest room, Dharamsala
- In a mother's milk
- Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni
- 2050
- Apausalypse Now: Covid-19 postscript
- Dedication
- Endnotes
- Photo credits
- Index.
- Notes:
- A work of narrative nonfiction that illustrates the reality of climate change--and offers hope in the face of an uncertain future.-- Source other than the Library of Congress.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781948830287
- 1948830280
- OCLC:
- 1505733147
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