On ‘How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going’
A book by Vaclac Smil
Bill Gates doesn’t hold back his praise for «How the World Really Works,» calling it «another masterpiece from one of my favorite authors.»
The book is the latest work from Vaclav Smil, a Czech-Canadian professor emeritus of environmental science at the University of Manitoba. In 2017, Gates wrote that he’d read all of Smil’s then-37 published books, on topics ranging from clean energy to manufacturing and agriculture. Gates intended to «wait for new Smil books the way some people wait for the next Star Wars movie,» he wrote.
Today, Gates writes that most of Smil’s books read like textbooks – but «this one is written for a general audience and gives an overview of the main areas of his expertise.» It covers how energy has shaped the history of civilization, from agricultural societies to our modern, industrial age.
Smil «has crunched all of the numbers» to deliver «a brief but thorough education in numeric thinking about many of the fundamental forces that shape human life,» Gates writes.
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From it:
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic made it clear that disagreements among experts may extend even to such seemingly simple decisions as wearing a face mask. By the end of March 2020 (three months into the pandemic) the World Health Organization still advised against doing so unless a person was infected, and the reversal came only in early June 2020. How can those without any special knowledge take sides or make any sense of these disputes that now often end in
retractions or the dismantling of previously dominant claims?
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