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Häftad (B-format paperback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
336
Utgivningsdatum
2022-10-06
Förlag
Penguin Books Ltd
Dimensioner
198 x 129 x 35 mm
Vikt
235 g
ISBN
9780241989678

How the World Really Works

A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

av Vaclav Smil
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Häftad,  Engelska, 2022-10-06
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* THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * 'Another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors . . . If you want a brief but thorough education in numeric thinking about many of the fundamental forces that shape human life, this is the book to read. It's a tour de force' BILL GATES __________ We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment and its future, How the World Really Works offers a much-needed reality check - because before we can tackle problems effectively, we must understand the facts. In this ambitious and thought-provoking book we see, for example, that globalization isn't inevitable and that our societies have been steadily increasing their dependence on fossil fuels, making their complete and rapid elimination unlikely. Drawing on the latest science and tackling sources of misinformation head on - from Yuval Noah Harari to Noam Chomsky - ultimately Smil answers the most profound question of our age: are we irrevocably doomed or is a brighter utopia ahead? __________ 'Very informative and eye-opening in many ways' HA-JOON CHANG, author of 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism 'If you are anxious about the future, and infuriated that we aren't doing enough about it, please read this book' PAUL COLLIER, author of The Future of Capitalism
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  1. Dense and depressing but worth your attention
    Joris, 27 oktober 2023

    Under the title "How the world really works", it should read "(not how you would want it to work)". Lots of useful insights but really rather depressing at the same time.

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  2. Nykter realism
    Realistisk senior., 3 juli 2023

    Gedigen genomgång av grundläggande materiella faktorer för vårt nuvarande samhälle. Möjligheterna till förändring finns men det kommer att ta lång tid eftersom det är rent materiella förutsättningar som ingen vilja i världen kan ändra.
    Det underliggande budskapet är uppfordrande- om vi vill minska klimatpåverkan måste vi människor ändra våra beteenden i stället för att hoppas på materiella mirakel.

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Vaclav Smil is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Manitoba. He is the author of over forty books on topics including energy, environmental and population change, food production and nutrition, technical innovation, risk assessment, and public policy. No other living scientist has had more books (on a wide variety of topics) reviewed in Nature. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, in 2010 he was named by Foreign Policy as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers.

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