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  Title

  Footprints : in search of future fossils First edition.

  Author

  Farrier, David, 1979-  

  Publisher:

  Farrar, Straus and Giroux,

  Pub date:

  2020.

  Pages:

  307 pages ;

  ISBN:

  9780374157333

  Item info:

  1 copy available in Adult nonfiction shelves.
  1 copy total in all locations.

  • 9780374157333
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    Call number	Copies	Material	Location
    304.2 FAR	1	Adult non-fic hardcover	Adult nonfiction shelves

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  Footprints : in search of future fossils First edition.
  Farrier, David, 1979-
  

  Personal Author:

  Farrier, David, 1979-

  Title:

  Footprints : in search of future fossils / David Farrier.

  Edition:

  First edition.

  Physical description:

  307 pages ; 22 cm

  Contents:

  Traces of a haunted future -- 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.

  Subject term:

  Human ecology.

  Subject term:

  Climatic changes--Effect of human beings on.

  Subject term:

  Nature--Effect of human beings on.

  Subject term:

  Geology, Stratigraphic--Anthropocene.

  Subject term:

  Human geography.

  Subject term:

  History, Modern.

  Subject term:

  Civilization, Modern.