Tim Weed

Very happy to have this piece up at LitHub, one of my favorite literary on-line venues.

Excerpt below:

“The deep-time perspective of all these books has given me a better vantage point on the current moment, not only as it relates to the trajectory of the human species but also to the long and varied story of life on Earth. While I do fear that humanity’s circumstances are likely to get worse before they get better, the zoomed-out perspective of deep time has given me surprising new grounds for optimism.

To paraphrase Marcia Bjornerud in Timefulness, it’s not the end of nature we’re looking at, but the end of the illusion that we’re not part of nature.”

Read the whole piece here.

Tagged: booklists, deep time, Literary Hub, the afterlife project