The passage of nine days, which is how long a drop of water typically stays in Earth's atmosphere, is something we can easily grasp. "Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survival: Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales in our planet's long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating for ourselves. Environmental crises in earth's history : causes and consequences Summary Explains why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to planetary survival and offers suggestions for how to create a more time-literate society. Durations and rates of earth phenomena 3. Object Details author Bjornerud, Marcia Contents Prologue: The allure of timelessness - A call for timefulness - An atlas of time - The pace of the earth - Changes in the air - Great accelerations - Timefulness, utopian and scientific - Epilogue - Appendixes. Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, African Art.
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