How the world really works : the science behind how we got here and where we're going
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How the world really works : the science behind how we got here and where we're going
Viking, 2022
1st North American ed
- : hardcover
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Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier)
"First published in hardcover in Great Britain by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House Ltd., London, in 2022"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-306) and index
Summary: "An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible--a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish. We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don't know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment and its future, How the World Really Works offers a much-needed reality check--because before we can tackle problems effectively, we must understand the facts. In this ambitious and thought-provoking book we see, for example, that globalization isn't inevitable--the foolishness of allowing 70 per cent of the world's rubber gloves to be made in just one factory became glaringly obvious in 2020--and that our societies have been steadily increasing their dependence on fossil fuels, such that any
収録内容
- Introduction: Why do we need this book?
- Understanding energy : fuels and electricity
- Understanding food production : eating fossil fuels
- Understanding our material world : the four pillars of modern civilization
- Understanding globalization : engines, microchips, and beyond
- Understanding risks : from viruses to diets to solar flares
- Understanding the environment : the only biosphere we have
- Understanding the future : between apocalypse and singularity
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