IF INTERSTELLAR explorers came to Earth 100 million years from now, what traces of humanity might they find? This elegantly written book, one of the best of recent geology popularisations, investigates. Written like a science-fiction detective story, it begins with the how-to’s of studying our planet’s past, but soon focuses on what the aliens might find of us: climate change, extinctions, an “urban stratum” of fossilised cities, and rare remains of a species that still has the choice to minimise its impact or wreak havoc on a scale comparable to the extinction of dinosaurs.
The Earth After Us
Oxford University Press