Footprints: In Search of the World We Will Leave Behind, by David Farrier

Footprints, by David Farrier
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How will they see us in the future? In other words, it is a matter of imagining a teenager from the year 3024, whatever species he may be, in front of a textbook reading about humanity that occupied the world during our sigh in the cosmos.

Perhaps the adolescent will think strangely how gilis we were (sorry, we are). And then there will be the archaeologist who will discover our little things, from Michelangelo's David, already made a few foxes, to the last book of Belén Esteban, paradoxes of time, whims of God's dice ...

The approach itself of how we will be remembered has all been considered on occasion. But it is now, with the alienating feeling that nothing was as controlled as we thought adocenados in the optimism of the pig that still finds acorns in the pasture overlooking the end of the world. The thing has a point of science fiction, as well as unavoidable certainty.

When the very Irene Vallejo, one of the minds most capable of summarizing narration, realism and passion for the ancient world, recommends this reading for its vision of what can be deduced from us when there are only shadows left, without a doubt we cannot miss it.

Synopsis

David farrier invites us to think about how we will be remembered in the myths, stories and languages ​​of future generations. Because tomorrow our planet will be colonized by our current human activity, through the transformation of ecosystems, the exploitation of natural resources and the generation of long-term waste. The future fossils of the Anthropocene are part of our legacy and, above all, they explain our time.

Footprints combines history and ecology, literature and science, travel and philosophy to turn many of our preconceptions around, draw analogies with other decisive moments in the past and show us how, in the face of pessimistic determinism, there are still alternatives and unknowns in a wonderful dialogue between the past. , present and future.

Using his own life and research experience, we accompany Farrier from the Baltic to the Great Barrier Reef, from Shanghai to Tasmania, to discover a world that changes rapidly, and whose consequences will not only alter our way of thinking about the future , but will also change the way we see the world today.

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Footprints, by David Farrier
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