Name: Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood: Permafrost and Extinction in the Russian Arctic (en Inglés)
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Author: Wrigley, Charlotte
ISBN: 9781517911812

portada Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood: Permafrost and Extinction in the Russian Arctic (en Inglés)

Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood: Permafrost and Extinction in the Russian Arctic (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Charlotte Wrigley

Editorial

University of Minnesota Press

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

256

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

21.6 x 14.0 x 1.5 cm

Peso

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9781517911812

Categorías

Regiones polares
Filosofía de la ciencia
Influencia de la ciencia y la tecnología sobre la sociedad
Glaciares y casquetes de hielo
Cambio climático
La tierra: historia natural general. interés general

Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood: Permafrost and Extinction in the Russian Arctic (en Inglés)

Charlotte Wrigley (Autor) · University of Minnesota Press · Tapa Dura

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Reseña del libro "Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood: Permafrost and Extinction in the Russian Arctic (en Inglés)"

Exploring one of the greatest potential contributors to climate change--thawing permafrost--and the anxiety of extinction on an increasingly hostile planet Climate scientists point to permafrost as a "ticking time bomb" for the planet, and from the Arctic, apocalyptic narratives proliferate on the devastating effects permafrost thaw poses to human survival. In Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood, Charlotte Wrigley considers how permafrost--and its disappearance--redefines extinction to be a lack of continuity, both material and social, and something that affects not only life on earth but nonlife, too.Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood approaches the topic of thawing permafrost and the wild new economies and mitigation strategies forming in the far north through a study of the Sakha Republic, Russia's largest region, and its capital city Yakutsk, which is the coldest city in the world and built on permafrost. Wrigley examines people who are creating commerce out of thawing permafrost, including scientists wishing to recreate the prehistoric "Mammoth steppe" ecosystem by eventually rewilding resurrected woolly mammoths, Indigenous people who forage the tundra for exposed mammoth bodies to sell their tusks, and government officials hoping to keep their city standing as the ground collapses under it. Warming begets thawing begets economic activity-- and as a result, permafrost becomes discontinuous, both as land and as a social category, in ways that have implications for the entire planet. Discontinuity, Wrigley shows, eventually evolves into extinction.Offering a new way of defining extinction through the concept of "discontinuity," Earth, Ice, Bone, Blood presents a meditative and story-focused engagement with permafrost as more than just frozen ground.