{"product_id":"9780008286378","title":"Footprints","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Farrier, David, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 15\/04\/2021,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 320 pages,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Fourth Estate Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: HarperCollins Publishers,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Rocks minerals \u0026amp; fossils, Geology\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780008286378\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003eA profound meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene and an urgent search for the fossils - industrial, chemical, geological - that humans are leaving behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFootprints will not only alter how you think about the future, it will change how you see the world today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Times Book of the Year \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Daily Telegraph Book of the Year\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39777347895449,"sku":"9780008286378","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780008286378.jpg?v=1618244319","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780008286378","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}