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Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature (MIT Press)
Vaclav Smil
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| #886545 in Books | 2012-12-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.63 x7.00l,1.48 | File type: PDF | 320 pages||27 of 29 people found the following review helpful.| What we have taken from nature|By Stephen C. Baer|If you are interested in who we are and what we have been doing for millennia, read this book. The subtitle, "what we have taken from nature" sets a tone of these remarkable 300 pages. Smil has his doubts about us. Who wouldn't? In some pages I find the tone of Scientism, the substitution of scientific jargons for what|||Vaclav Smil, the extraordinary polymath, critically evaluates what we know about the enormous impact of humans on the productive capacity of Earth through our history. He concludes that our future will bring major challenges to society and threats to our biot
The biosphere -- the Earth's thin layer of life -- dates from nearly four billion years ago, when the first simple organisms appeared. Many species have exerted enormous influence on the biosphere's character and productivity, but none has transformed the Earth in so many ways and on such a scale as Homo sapiens. In Harvesting the Biosphere, Vaclav Smil offers an interdisciplinary and quantitative account of human claims on the biosphere's stores of li...
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