How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil

How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil

Vaclav Smil is Bill Gates's favourite author and a permanent irritant to both optimists and catastrophists, because he insists on the numbers. His argument is that most people have no idea what actually keeps them alive.

Energy: almost everything you use is fossil fuel converted into something else. Food: a loaf of bread costs about a hundred millilitres of diesel to produce. The four pillars of modern civilisation are cement, steel, plastics and ammonia, and none of them currently has a scalable low-carbon route. He is equally dismissive of denial and of techno-optimism.

A number one bestseller and the most bracing book on energy and food systems in print.

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