![]() ![]() Hearing out scientific experts who study a wider time span than a Facebook timeline is key to tackling our planet's emergency. The second crisis, he argues, is worsening the effects of the first. Ialenti takes on two overlapping crises: the Anthropocene epoch, our current moment of human-caused environmental transformation and the deflation of expertise- today's institutional erosion of expert authority. The challenge, he says, is to learn to inhabit a longer now. ![]() In this book, Vincent Ialenti offers a guide for envisioning the planet's far future-to become, as he terms it, more skilled deep time reckoners. And yet we struggle to grasp the scale of the crisis, barely able to imagine the effects of climate change just ten years from now, let alone the multi-millennial timescales of Earth's past and future life span. We live on a planet careening toward environmental collapse that will be largely brought about by our own actions. ![]()
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