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A review by adellama_05
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future by Vaclav Smil
4.0
Explains total human energy, resource and material use so the numbers make sense. Talks about how relied we are upon fossil fuels, in terms of food, materials.
Points out that forecasts in global trends are almost always wrong, and that the world will mostly change slower than before, not faster, in many physical areas because of the sheer scale and inertia of big systems, which is convincingly a more-accurate-than-most way of looking at global change. This book is well worth a read to most of us, even if it's just for the history covered on the past innovations regarding energy, food production, globalisation and two other topics.
Points out that forecasts in global trends are almost always wrong, and that the world will mostly change slower than before, not faster, in many physical areas because of the sheer scale and inertia of big systems, which is convincingly a more-accurate-than-most way of looking at global change. This book is well worth a read to most of us, even if it's just for the history covered on the past innovations regarding energy, food production, globalisation and two other topics.