How the World Really Works
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How the World Really Works Why We're Wrong and How Science Can Set Us Straight

Vaclav Smil2021

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Heiki Riesenkampf@hrk
3 stars
Dec 18, 2023

It's a very dense book full of numbers. I tried to listen to it as an audiobook, but I would highly recommend reading it on paper in order to be able to take easier notes. The book gives a great overview of all major challenges we need to solve and also potential solutions to them. I am glad to have a much better understanding of the scope of problems and solutions to the climate problems we are facing.

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Lena Köninger@larouge
3 stars
Oct 28, 2023

Strong start and completely new perspectives and insights into how the world works. However, it gets a bit too much after 2/3 of the book and I don't agree with his conclusional thoughts.

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Fan @frankbaozhu
5 stars
Feb 12, 2023

This world needs more books like this to cure the dystopia of mass public. Hats off to the author.

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Keven Wang@kevenwang
4 stars
Feb 4, 2023

A bit dry

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Johannes Ecker@haenschenhans
4 stars
Nov 17, 2022

a great read! gives a rather sobering outlook to the challenges ahead for mankind.

the topics covered in this book are quite diverse, I liked the ones focused on resources and production most - couldn't relate too much with the small part about nutrition & risk, but it was nevertheless very insightful.

all in all, the book could be improved by some infographics, as very often lots of numbers are referred to or presented to in plain text, which makes it sometimes a bit harder to grasp.

+4
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Fred@runhumans
4.5 stars
May 10, 2024
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Philipe Gerlach@blueridgeangler
5 stars
Oct 4, 2022
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lily@prvfrck
2 stars
Feb 27, 2024
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Tomaz Stolfa@tomazstolfa
5 stars
Aug 9, 2023
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Todd Prauner@tuddball
4 stars
Mar 25, 2023
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Ahmed Salem@salem309
4 stars
Sep 6, 2022

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