Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization Conway Ed
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization Conway Ed Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. Without them, our modern world would not exist, and the battle to control…
Specifikacia Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization Conway Ed
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization Conway Ed
Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. Without them, our modern world would not exist, and the battle to control them will determine our future.The fiber-optic cables that weave the World Wide Web, the copper veins of our electric grids, the silicon chips and lithium batteries that power our phones and cars: though it can feel like we now live in a weightless world of information--what Ed Conway calls "the ethereal world"--our twenty-first-century lives are still very much rooted in the material.In fact, we dug more stuff out of the earth in 2017 than in all of human history before 1950. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and greed for thousands of years.
And in Material World, Conway embarks For every ton of fossil fuels, we extract six tons of other materials, from sand to stone to wood to metal.
Material World - Ed Conway
Material World - Ed Conway
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