What the Earth Knows
How understanding Earth’s deep past can lead us into our radically altered future. The post What the Earth Knows appeared first on Nautilus.
Marcia Bjornerud would like to change the way you think about time. This is not so surprising for a geologist who spends days contemplating millennia and eons, which tends to put yesterday’s headlines in perspective. Most geologists have an uncanny ability to look at a landscape and mentally erase the past 10,000 years or so. But Bjornerud, a professor of geology and environmental studies at Lawrence University, in Wisconsin, believes learning to think in longer timescales and about the planet’s deep past is essential for anyone who cares about the future.
Bjornerud wrote lyrically about Earth’s temporal rhythms in ( in ).
