Timefulness: how thinking like a geologist can help save the world

Prologue: The allure of timelessness

A call for timefulness

An atlas of time

The pace of the earth

Changes in the air

Great accelerations

Timefulness, utopian and scientific

Epilogue

Appendixes. 1. Simplified geologic timescale ; 2. Durations and rates of earth phenomena ; 3. Environmental crises in earth's history : causes and consequences.