![]() ![]() Bjornerud’s idea isn’t simply that we should develop a sense of long-term thinking geologists, after all, deal with rocks billions of years old. ![]() That sort of “timeful” thinking doesn’t look like you might expect. Marcia Bjornerud, a professor of geology and environmental studies at Lawrence University, writes that at least some of the problem with our understanding of the situation lies in our “time denial.” In Timefulness, she proposes that developing a geologist’s thinking about time will help us more properly address our current global situation. Even so, neither public conversation nor policy properly addresses the problem. With the release of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s special report this past October, the disastrous effects of anthropogenic climate change feel even more imminent (as if we aren’t seeing them already). ![]() How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the WorldĪmazon ] Kindle ] Audible ] ![]()
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