Song of the Earth. Understanding Geology and Why It Matters (ePub)

Izuchenie Zemli predstavlyaet soboy otdel'nuyu oblast' nauki, hotya ona i svyazana s astronomiey, biologiey, fizikoy i himiey. Pered vami uvlekatel'naya biografiya nashey planety, kotoraya posvyashchaet v tayny nauchnogo, istoricheskogo i filosofskogo simbioza chelovechestva i Zemli. Rassmatrivaya planetu kak integrirovannuyu ekosistemu, Elizabet Ervin-Blankenhaym na primerah pokazyvaet, kak zemlya, voda, zhivye organizmy i atmosfera podderzhivayut prevoskhodnyy, no hrupkiy balans, kotoryy seychas nahoditsya pod ugrozoy. Zahvatyvayushchaya i mestami poetichnaya, kniga rasskazyvaet, kakim obrazom Zemlya vliyala na zhivye organizmy i kak zhivye organizmy formirovali oblik nashey planety.
«V gornyh porodah i istorii Zemli skryty tayny i klyuchi k preodoleniyu nyneshnih problem vo vsekh sredah obitaniya zhivyh organizmov - vozdushnoy, vodnoy, nazemnoy, - voznikshih v rezul'tate neustoychivosti global'nyh krugovorotov iz-za izmeneniy klimata. Bolee togo, nash mir, esli ne vsya Vselennaya, ne tol'ko yavlyaetsya otrazheniem takih ciklov, no i adaptiruetsya k nim: Zemlya vrashchaetsya, poetomu solnce voskhodit i zahodit, chtoby vnov' vzoyti; proiskhodyat izverzheniya vulkanov, poetomu susha podnimaetsya i opuskaetsya, tol'ko chtoby vernut'sya v magmu i vnov' vosstanovit'sya. Predstavlenie o ciklichnosti i o tom, chto v masshtabah geologicheskogo vremeni mozhno nazvat' astronomicheskim ili planetarnym nepostoyanstvom, mozhet sposobstvovat' postroeniyu novyh, bolee plodotvornyh vzaimootnosheniy s planetoy: vozmozhno, bolee glubokomu ponimaniyu, uvazheniyu i proyavleniyu zaboty o nashey obshchey srede obitaniya». (Elizabet Ervin-Blankenhaym)