Marcia Bjornerud: Timefulness, Geology for Saving the World
Channel: Ed Mays
Date: 2018-10-04

As climate change rapidly accelerates into what long time Pirate TV guest, Dahr Jamail recently called the "end game", the amount of ignorance of this fact is nothing short of remarkable. This is not only testament to the power of propaganda generated by the richest and most powerful corporations in human history but of the dumbing down and general scientific illiteracy of the US public.  Few people have any idea that the knowledge that enables scientists to generate the computer models that predict what is happening to the climate now comes from the study of mass extinction events that happened in Earth's ancient past.  This knowledge comes from geology-- mostly the study of ice cores, rock cores, and sediment layers.  This is not taught in schools unless you specifically take a geology class although it should be.  It is also not something you are likely to encounter on your corporate brainwash tube.

Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales of our planet’s long history.  Geology professor and Fulbright Scholar Marcia Bjornerud outlines the ways in which our everyday lives are shaped by processes that vastly predate us—and in turn, how our habits will have consequences that will outlast us by generations. With insight from her book Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World she reveals how knowing the rhythms of Earth’s deep past and conceiving of time as a geologist can give us the perspective we need for creating a more sustainable future.  Join Bjornerud for a literal history of the world, and a treatise for building a more time-literate and ecologically considerate society.

See also: https://truthout.org/articles/brace-for-impact-as-the-climate-end-game-has-arrived/

Thanks to Seattle Town Hall and Third Place Books
Recorded 9/17/18

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