In his new book “Deep Time Reckoning; How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now” from MIT Press, Prof. Ialenti examines the challenges involved in thinking at a timescale far beyond that of our own, and perhaps even our own species’ frame of existence.
Of all the effects commonly noted in discussions of global climate change, ocean acidification and its effects on the shells of the myriad creatures dwelling within them to be found in the seas is generally high on the list. But for as ubiquitous as seashells are to us today, how much do most of us really know about them?
What is it like to be a bee? Not so much what does it physically feel like, but rather on a social, perhaps even an emotional level? When you think about how bees act in relation to one another, how the societies they form function, it’s not all that difficult to see some decidedly positive characteristics in bee societies that would possibly improve our own if adopted.
The second volume in the Terra Tempo series, The Four Corners of Time rejoins the three young heroes of the first Terra Tempo volume, Ice Age Cataclysm!, in a new adventure that will take them much further back in time.