A review by miguelf
Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Stories to Help Us Understand the Modern World by Vaclav Smil

3.0

Not my favorite version of Smil as this is more like a bathroom book with miniscule chapters on some fairly weighty issues and didn’t think that he would author a ‘bathroom book’. Though packed with a lot of facts and figures, it feels like a lot of filler especially when you know what he is capable of writing. Still if it serves to introduce a wider audience to the topics of population trends, energy use, and environmental impact then it was a worthwhile endeavor.