An essential guide to understanding how numbers reveal the true state of our world from environmental scientist and policy analyst Vaclav Smil - Bill Gates' go-to guy for making sense of our world. From data about our societies and populations, through measures of the fuels and foods that energize them, to the impact of transportation and inventions of our modern world - and how all of this affects the planet itself, Smil takes us on a fact-finding adventure, using surprising statistics and illuminating graphs to challenge conventional thinking.
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