{"id":2384,"date":"2023-12-09T14:14:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-09T14:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/?post_type=podcast&#038;p=2384"},"modified":"2023-12-09T14:15:43","modified_gmt":"2023-12-09T14:15:43","slug":"vincent-ialenti-deep-time-reckoning","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/newnatures.org\/greenhouse\/podcast\/vincent-ialenti-deep-time-reckoning\/","title":{"rendered":"Vincent Ialenti &#8211; Deep Time Reckoning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Vincent Ialenti, Research Fellow at The Berggruen Institute and University of Southern California, USA, discussed his book\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/mitpress.mit.edu\/books\/deep-time-reckoning\">Deep Time Reckoning: How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(MIT Press, 2020) in the Greenhouse environmental humanities book talk series on Monday, 25 October 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We live on a planet careening toward environmental collapse that will be largely brought about by our own actions. And yet we struggle to grasp the scale of the crisis, barely able to imagine the effects of climate change just ten years from now, let alone the multi-millennial timescales of Earth\u2019s past and future life span. In this book, Vincent Ialenti offers a guide for envisioning the planet\u2019s far future\u2014to become, as he terms it, more skilled deep time reckoners. The challenge, he says, is to learn to inhabit a longer now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ialenti takes on two overlapping crises: the Anthropocene, our current moment of human-caused environmental transformation; and the deflation of expertise\u2014today\u2019s popular mockery and institutional erosion of expert authority. The second crisis, he argues, is worsening the effects of the first. Hearing out scientific experts who study a wider time span than a Facebook timeline is key to tackling our planet\u2019s emergency. Astrophysicists, geologists, historians, evolutionary biologists, climatologists, archaeologists, and others can teach us the art of long-termism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a case study in long-term thinking, Ialenti turns to Finland\u2019s nuclear waste repository \u201cSafety Case\u201d experts. These scientists forecast far future glaciations, climate changes, earthquakes, and more, over the coming tens of thousands\u2014or even hundreds of thousands or millions\u2014of years. They are not pop culture \u201cfuturists\u201d but data-driven, disciplined technical experts, using the power of patterns to construct detailed scenarios and quantitative models of the far future. 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