A review by alykat_reads
Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need to Know About the World by Vaclav Smil

4.0

This was an interesting surface level breakdown of some statistics, which I love. There were a lot of topics covered in this, many of which I am very interested in looking more at in depth. The topics were all over in range - from the pyramids in Egypt to cows to wars to cars to pandemics. This isn't a book to get detailed info about any of these topics, but a nice surface level skim of various statistics. The short summary of each does leave a little to be desired, and can result in a manipulation of some of the statistics he provides, without the detailed information of how those numbers were obtained and how they are being applied. I listened to this and did not have access to the PDF that was referenced constantly, which may provide more of this information and/or a little more clarity on some of that.