How the World Really Works - Vaclav Smil Audiobook
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Read by Stephen Perring
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By: Vaclav Smil
Narrated by: Stephen Perring
Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Categories: History, WorldWe have never had so much information at our fingertips, and yet most of us simply don’t understand how our world really works. Professor Vaclav Smil is not a pessimist or an optimist, he is a scientist, and this book is a much-needed reality check on topics ranging from food production and nutrition, through energy and the environment, to globalisation and the future. For example, the carbon footprint of meat is well known, but did you know that the equivalent of five tablespoons of diesel fuel goes into the production of each greenhouse-grown, medium-size, supermarket-bought tomato? The gap between belief and reality is vast.
Drawing on the latest science, tackling sources of misinformation head-on and championing a rational, fact-based approach, in How the World Really Works Smil shows, for example, why the planet isn’t ’suffocating’ (even burning all the planet’s fossil fuels would reduce oxygen levels by just 0.25 per cent) and that globalisation isn’t ‘inevitable’ and nor should it be (the stupidity of allowing 70 per cent of the world’s rubber gloves to be made in just one factory became glaringly obvious in 2020).
Ultimately, Smil answers the most profound question of our age: are we irrevocably doomed, or is a brighter utopia ahead? Compelling, data-rich and revisionist, this wonderfully broad, interdisciplinary masterpiece finds faults with both extremes. Looking at the world through this quantitative lens reveals hidden truths that change the way we see our past, present and uncertain future.
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This post has 20 comments with rating of 5/5
February 9th, 2022
Nobody actually believes that carbon dioxide is bad because it’ll make us literally suffocate from there being too much of it. The problem is rising temperatures, which causes rising sea levels, desertification, more frequent and intense storms and wildfires, and raise the acidity of the oceans. If the ocean acidity gets too high, the plankton that make most of our oxygen will all die off, and then we’ll likely face a total biosphere collapse. There’s simply no way to survive that, our technology is not at the point that we can replace the biosphere to provide for all of our needs with it.
February 9th, 2022
Many thanks for this title. Usually, I refrain from off-topic comments, but this time I was really struck by the absurdity of micamica2’s claims: “If the ocean acidity gets too high, the plankton that make most of our oxygen will all die off, and then we’ll likely face a total biosphere collapse.” I’m no scientist, but it’s pretty obvious to me that plankton is to all intents and purposes indestructible. If it has survived catastrophes like the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs, it can survive anything WE can throw at it, and we can never raise the ocean acidity too high for all of plankton to die (what’s “too high” anyway?), and in any case it would be done so gradually that all life in the ocean would have ample time to adapt to such higher levels like it did to higher level of oxygen, which is normally poison to all life because it is so aggressive.
February 9th, 2022
@avdemid Reading your off-topic comment based on the “absurdity” of micamica2’s claims, I agree. You are no scientist.
February 9th, 2022
“Vaclav S.”… Is he the real Straka?
February 9th, 2022
Hvala Opa.
February 10th, 2022
@Malachie520 well said !
February 10th, 2022
Brava!
February 10th, 2022
Unfortunately the whole book can’t be downloaded due to some missing chapters….:(
February 10th, 2022
@micamica2
No, it is more than that. Providing for all of our needs goes against capitalist consumption and certainly against competition. We compete with neighbors across the street and across the oceans.
The bigger problem will be resource depletion. We continue to over fishing the oceans, strip the earth of precious minerals, and of oil and gas, all while trying to feed and provide for an ever growing population. That is not sustainable. At some point it will be too much for many places, certainly if oceans rise and more extreme weather develops. This isn’t to say we are all doomed however, only the lower class or geographically unlucky.
The have nots might not do so well, but the have yatchs will do just fine. .
February 10th, 2022
Oh! I am a scientist, so I’ll say this: Nature is adaptable. If a few thousand exo systems collapse life will go on. Society may collapse, humans may die, but life will go on.
February 15th, 2022
When the human population reaches 50 billion and everyone live in giant anthill like tower block. When everyone eat artificcially produced, laboratory designed “food” products. When crime rates are so high people are reluctant to leave their fortress like apartments and most people work from home. When water is rationed. When…
Maybe then people will realize that an ever increasing world population was not a very good idea.
Hopefully long before that time the crunch will come and there will be no alternative but to adopt population and consumption controlls. I very nuch doubt it though.
February 15th, 2022
ISeededForDays - What’s a “yatchs”? :)
February 16th, 2022
What does “nuch” mean?
February 17th, 2022
“Not a valid torrent file…”
February 17th, 2022
“Nuch” means I need new glasses. Or, I should put down the glass of ale and look at the keyboard when I type. Or, it’s a gremlin in my laptop. Maybe all three.
I admit to being a slacker when it comes to typin and spellin, and other things too numerous to list here.
February 17th, 2022
Then join our club of complacent slacker-dumb. Although, I have to admit that I’m quite the stickler for properly erect spullinge, and pride myself on never having once made a misteak.
May 23rd, 2022
Thank you kindly
June 8th, 2022
Thanks a lot.
April 7th, 2024
Tanko!
July 6th, 2024
The torrent never seems to start even if there are plenty of trackers and sources, what is going on?
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