She is the author of Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth and Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World, as well as a contributing writer to The New Yorker, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and Wired. Bjornerud is a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and has been a Fulbright Senior Scholar at the University of Oslo, Norway and University of Otago, New Zealand. Marcia Bjornerud is Professor of Geology and Environmental Studies at Lawrence University. The Long Time Sessions are organised by The Long Time Project, in collaboration with the RSA and the General Ecology Network at the Serpentine Galleries. For this session, Bjornerud will be in conversation with The Long Time Project co-founder, Ella Saltmarshe. Bjornerud’s work explores how knowing the rhythms of Earth’s deep past – and conceiving of time in the way a geologist does – can give us the perspective we need for a more sustainable future. In this, the second session, geologist Marcia Bjornerud, author of Timefulness: How Thinking like a Geologist Can Help Save the World, will discuss how an awareness of Earth’s temporal rhythms might be critical for planetary survival. Speakers will explore how engaging with the long-term can change the way we act in the short term. It will bring together leading thinkers and doers from art, culture, philosophy, science, technology, law, finance and politics, to take a longer view. The Long Time Sessions is a fortnightly online talk series on cultivating care for the world beyond our lifetimes. A fortnightly online talk series on cultivating care for the world beyond our lifetimes.Ģ020 is a poignant reminder that we need longer-term thinking now to tackle the existential risks we face and create a better world for future generations.

Timefulness by marcia bjornerud