Footprints 英文原版 大卫·法里尔：脚印
David Farrier在爱丁堡大学教英国文学。他是文学学会贾尔斯·圣奥宾奖的获得者。戴维是2016届爱丁堡国际艺术节开幕式上的一位顾问，他讲述了3亿5000万年前爱丁堡形成的故事，最近在新南威尔士大学举办了著名的勒弗鲁姆奖学金。他的作品发表在《永世》和《大西洋》上。
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作者David Farrier
出版社Harper Collins UK
ISBN9780008317874
出版时间2020-03
印刷时间2020-03
印数1千册
装帧平装
开本32开
纸张轻型纸
页数320页
字数1千字
定价156元
上书时间2022-01-14
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对气候变化和人类世的深刻思考，对人类留下的化石——工业的、化学的、地质的——的迫切探索，一万或一千万年后的世界会是什么样子?在《脚印》中，大卫·法瑞尔探索了我们将为遥远的未来留下什么痕迹。从塑料和核废料等寿命长的材料，到跨越地球的5000万公里的道路，在现代，我们创造了无数的物体和景观，它们具有穿越漫长岁月的潜力。我们的碳可以在大气中停留10万年，而我们城市的遗迹在数百万年后仍将以岩石层的形式存在。
这些未来的化石有可能讲述我们在21世纪如何生活的非凡故事。通过文学、艺术和科学，脚印让我们思考，我们将如何在遥远的后代的神话、故事和语言中被记住。从波罗的海到大堡礁，从塔斯马尼亚岛的一个冰芯实验室到世界上*大的城市之一上海，大卫·法瑞尔讲述了一个世界正在迅速变化并产生长期影响的故事。
脚印不仅会改变你对未来的看法，还会改变你对当今世界的看法。
A profound meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene and an urgent search for the fossils-industrial, chemical, geological-that humans are leaving behindWhat will the world look like ten thousand or ten million years from now? In Footprints, David Farrier explores what traces we will leave for the very deep future. From long-lived materials like plastic and nuclear waste, to the 50 million kilometres of roads spanning the planet, in modern times we have created numerous objects and landscapes with the potential to endure through deep time. Our carbon could linger in the atmosphere for 100,000 years, and the remains of our cities will still exist millions of years from now as a layer in the rock.
These future fossils have the potential to tell remarkable stories about how we lived in the twenty-first century. Through literature, art, and science, Footprints invites us to think about how we will be remembered in the myths, stories, and languages of our distant descendants. Travelling from the Baltic Sea to the Great Barrier Reef, and from an ice core laboratory in Tasmania to Shanghai, one of the world's biggest cities, David Farrier tells a story of a world that is changing rapidly, and with long-term consequences.
Footprints will not only alter how you think about the future, it will change how you see the world today.
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'Mr Farrier's prose glitters ... As Mr Farrier notes, even if pollution and consumption ceased tomorrow, their effects would take millennia to unwind. Human life is etched into the fossil record for aeons to come. "The challenge is to learn...to examine our present," he writes, "by the eerie light cast by the onrushing future." His subtle, elegant book rises to that challenge' Economist
'It is an oddly hopeful exploration of deep time and a world doing just fine without us.' New Scientist
'Farrier races through the past and makes brief stops in the present before soaring into the deep future, all the while exploring our capacity as human beings to leave traces behind us ... It echoes many of the concerns of nature writers such as Kathleen Jamie, Katharine Norbury and Robert Macfarlane, but from a different coign of vantage. Farrier is less nature writer an more 'smart thinker' ... At its best, there are moments when the eye of the poet and the analyst come together in memorable flight' Literary Review
'All decent people want to be remembered well. In the ancient world, moral life was often seen as the effort to be a good ancestor. If that's how you see things, David Farrier's brilliant, plangent book will leave you gasping with shame. Our grandchildren (if any survive) will look back on us with contempt' The Oldie, Charles Foster
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