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Author:

Farrier, David, 1979- author.

Title:

Footprints : in search of future fossils / David Farrier.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

FarrarStraus and Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

307 pages ; 22 cm

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-303).

Contents:

Seeing the new world. The insatiable road -- Thin cities -- The bottle as hero -- The library of Babel -- Medusa's gaze -- The moment under the moment -- Where there should be something, there is nothing -- The little god -- Seeing the new world.

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 meditation 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.

ISBN:

0374157332
9780374157333

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1102149846

LCCN:

2019953755

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

YTPG232 -- Clinton Public Library (Clinton)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CPPC926 -- Kalona Public Library (Kalona)