Janky, unedited, written to help myself retain and understand better. What follows are a bunch of random riffs I wrote down while reading the book, but the larger big picture takeaway I had from the book is just contingent economic development seems to be on the laws of physics.
Notes: Energy and Civilization by Vaclav Smil
Janky, unedited, written to help myself retain and understand better. What follows are a bunch of random riffs I wrote down while reading the book, but the larger big picture takeaway I had from the book is just contingent economic development seems to be on the laws of physics.