Wrinkled Time: The Persistence of Past Worlds on Earth – Marcia Bjornerud
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Wrinkled Time: The Persistence of Past Worlds on Earth – Marcia Bjornerud
As the American ecologist Aldo Leopold deftly put it, we need to transform the way we see ourselves, ‘from conqueror of the land-community to plain member and citizen of it’.41 Thanks to forty years of Earth-system research, we have a rapidly improving scientific understanding of how the Holocene epoch – with its stable climate, ample fresh water,
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