We often talk about letting nature back into the modern metropolis, but what happens if we look at this process over a far larger timescale-say,over the course of l00 million years?
Geologist and popular-science writer Jan Zalasiewicz explores the extremely distant terrestrial future in his poetic and thoroughly stimulating new book The Earth After Us. Zalasiewicz is refreshingly blunt in his assessment of humankind’s chances of long-term preservation. “The surface of the future Earth,” he writes, “one hundred million years from now, will not have preserved evidence of contemporary human activity. Continue reading ‘Distant Terrestrial Future’ »