Deep time reckoning : how future thinking can help Earth now / Vincent Ialenti.

Author/creator Ialenti, Vincent author.
Format Book
PublicationCambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2020]
Descriptionxviii, 186 pages ; 23 cm.
Subjects
Radioactive waste disposal in the ground--Finland.
Radioactive waste repositories--Finland.
Environmental policy--Finland.
Nature--Effect of human beings on. --Forecasting.
Global environmental change--Forecasting.
Human ecology.
Social planning.
Geology, Stratigraphic--Anthropocene.
Time--Social aspects.
Finland--Environmental conditions. --21st century.

SeriesOne planet
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.
Abstract "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2019053898
ISBN9780262539265 paperback
ISBN0262539268 paperback