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How the World Really Works
- How Science Can Set Us Straight on Our Past, Present and Future
- Gesprochen von: Stephen Perring
- Spieldauer: 10 Std. und 8 Min.
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We 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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Gesamt5 out of 5 stars
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Sprecher5 out of 5 stars
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Geschichte5 out of 5 stars
- Pavel Petrman
- 13.07.2022
Great antidote to wishful thinking, perfectly narrated
Will not necessarily enlighten people who have taken up romanticism and wishful thinking as their new religion, but will surely help as a detoxifier for all you people who hate to suffer the formerly mentioned folk but occasionally have to.
Superb, superb narration. If only more audiobooks were narrated and mastered like this one.
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Gesamt5 out of 5 stars
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- LK
- 20.09.2024
Overreach
There were some interesting aspects to this book. I thought that the title was a bit misleading though. If the author had stuck to trying to explain how the world works (the first third of the book), it would have been more interesting. Instead too much of the book was taken up by the conviction that we won't be able to decarbonize quickly enough. Given that the other main theme was the inherent unpredictability of the future, I was not convinced by the trajectory of this book.
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Gesamt3 out of 5 stars
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Geschichte2 out of 5 stars
- Friedemann Rohr
- 29.12.2022
A Mixed Bag
The book starts strong by pointing out the true foundations of our complex societies such as energy, agriculture, materials and explaining them well. Where I felt a bit disappointed is with the vagueness of the second part of the book and especially in the chapters about our environmental footprint and the outlook for the future. I thought the author could have done more in those parts of the book than speak in mere generalities. At the end the book felt therefore a bit shallow. The production and the narrator were superb though.
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Gesamt1 out of 5 stars
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- Zarick Berger
- 19.10.2023
Serving excuse to do nothing
I also got the book because it was on the top of Bill Gates’s reading lists. What a mistake to follow that man’s reading…
The Book starts strong on statistics and economic numbers, but devolves rapidly into a list of excuses on why we can’t do anything about the climate because it is too complex to tackle. He’s definitely getting too old to be part of the solution!
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- Olivia Brindle
- 23.02.2023
Incredibly unhelpful
As a sustainability professional I was very disappointed by this book, particularly given Smil’s reputation as a scientist. He tells us he focuses on facts, science - actually, he focuses on explaining why it’s fine to do almost nothing about the climate crisis.
His view, crudely summarised, is that we are even more dependent on fossil fuels than we realise - and because they are so central to how our economies have evolved, well, there’s not much we can do. That’s how the world works. Let’s not even try to fundamentally rethink the neoliberal economic orthodoxy of our time. Let’s slowly and progressively think about maybe behaving differently at some point in time and pretend that this is the best that can be done. A very convenient attitude, absolving us from responsibility and from the imperative to take urgent action.
I listened to the end hoping that there would be some kind of tangible, practical conclusion - but there isn’t. Smil offers no solutions. Just excuses.
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- jerome
- 18.05.2022
Bad, simply bad.
First time I quit a book for ending earing/ reading it and I love science ( maybe that s the problem) . If that s where Bill gates gets his knowledge, than I feel sorry for him.
I m afraid that the world doesn’t really work as simple as the author explains it. And I m afraid everything is not doing fine as the author explains it. Too many statistics used only to consolidate his argumentation and on the top of that some are wrong. The author only writes this book to make quick cash after the pandemic and that a bit sad. I won’t recommend this book.
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