"parliamentary times"---What does it mean??

Question

The phrase comes from a book titled "Nature's Geography."

It's in the sentence: ..Nature moved in another time to people....made human time scales( their life times and their parliamentary times) look ...puny.

I don't know what the author means by "parliamentary times"

Does anyone know?

Thanks a lot

Answer 1

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