Grand Transitions
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What’s it about?
Vaclav Smil examines the four unprecedented transformations—demographic, energy, agricultural, and economic—that have created the modern world, and why their completion will be the defining challenge of the 21st century.
You’ll learn
- Why the demographic boom is a one-time event
- How fossil fuels unlocked modern civilization
- The hidden costs of industrial agriculture
- Why material growth may be hitting planetary limits