admiration for Vaclav Smil’s command of a range of disciplines, sources and statistics tends to break out here quite regularly.
I’ve just renewed it by watching this discussion from the recent Perimeter Institute Conference with the – also admirable – Andy Revkin.
you can see it all here
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Archive for October, 2009
Smil in full flow
October 29, 200950 more years?
October 20, 2009Cheerleaders for life extension which avoids extended decrepitude always make good copy. Here’s some. On one hand it reads as a pretty lazy example of journalism by press release (and from the BBC, too). On the other, it is representative of one line of development which is tempting to buy in to – replacement joints [...]
Smoke, mirrors and carbon?
October 4, 2009I have a bit of a problem with climate change. I am trying not to give too much weight to technology as an influence on possible futures. And especially when thinking about global change I am convinced that social technologies, as it were, will be as important as anything deriving from natural sciences or engineering [...]
