TY  - BOOK
AU  - Farrier,David
TI  - Footprints: in search of future fossils 
SN  - 9780374157333
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - Human ecology
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - Effect of human beings on
KW  - Nature
KW  - Geology, Stratigraphic
KW  - Anthropocene
KW  - Human geography
KW  - History, Modern
KW  - Civilization, Modern
KW  - Future, The
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-303); Traces of a haunted future --; The insatiable road --; Thin cities --; The bottle as hero --; The library of Babel --; Medusa's gaze --; The moment under the moment --; Where there should be something, there is nothing --; The little god --; Seeing the new world
N2  - The author surveys the traces we will leave for peoples in the very distant future.  He shows that modern civilization has created objects and landscapes with the potential to endure through deep time, including the plastic polluting the oceans, the nuclear waste entombed within the earth, and the thirty million miles of paved roads spanning the planet.  This is his meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene, and an urgent search for fossils--industrial, chemical, geological--that humans are leaving behind. -- adapted from inside front dust jacket
ER  -