Timescales sustainability : a case study in the deep time geobiopolitics of fossil fuels and cartography
Preliminary case study of the deep time mapping of ancient coastlines and watersheds as precursors to modern reliances of bioaccumulation.
The history of modern fossil fuels usage is predicated on patterns of ancient bioaccumulation in fossil fuels reserves, shale, peat, coal, and other biomass legacies that underlie at once geopolitical conflict, climate inheritance, and an archaic relationship to the legacies of ancient life forms and ecosystems that remain the bedrock of our global economies and often personal identities today.
A transparent cartography of bioaccumulation in the deep past could offer compassionate public insights into the nature of finite resources and the roots of ancient limitations for our current outlooks for the future of planet earth.
(A preliminary inquiry)
