<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEAnTdJxtFILGA47aZj7_uCEqFggEKg4IACoGCAowl6p7MN-zCTDMwRU?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">Vaclav Smil: ‘Growth must end. Our economist friends don’t seem to realise that’<span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span></a></span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The scientist and author on his latest book – an epic, multidisciplinary analysis of growth – and why humanity's endless expansion must stop. </span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBggKMJeqezDfswk?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">The Guardian<span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span></a></span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;">Yesterday</span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br class=""></span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> </span><em class="" style="color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities</em><span class="" style="color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-family: "Guardian Text Egyptian Web", Georgia, serif; font-size: 17px; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; orphans: 2; widows: 2;"> by Vaclav Smil is published by MIT Press</span></span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 11px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/21/vaclav-smil-interview-growth-must-end-economists" class="">https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/21/vaclav-smil-interview-growth-must-end-economists</a></span></div><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 11px;"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"></span><br class=""></div><p class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 18, 18); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><b class="">2 excerpts:</b></span></p><p class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 18, 18);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">“</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);" class="">We could<b class=""> halve our </b>energy and material<b class=""> consumption</b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><b class=""> </b>and this would put us back around the level of the 1960s. We could cut down without losing anything important. Life wasn’t horrible in 1960s or 70s Europe. People from Copenhagen would no longer be able to fly to Singapore for a three-day visit, but so what? Not much is going to happen to their lives. People don’t realise how much slack in the system we have.”</span></span></p><p class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(18, 18, 18);"><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><br class=""></span><span class="" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">“Now there is this louder voice calling for more consumption and a bigger bathroom and an SUV, but it’s increasingly apparent that cannot go on.”</span></p><div class="" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 238); -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/21/vaclav-smil-interview-growth-must-end-economists" class="">https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/sep/21/vaclav-smil-interview-growth-must-end-economists</a></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">=——————————————————<span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);">Steve Running’s review of an earlier book by Vaclav Smil </span>--------------------------------------------=<br class=""><br class="">“Full of recent references and statistics, Harvesting the Biosphere adds to the growing chorus of warnings about the current trajectory of human activity on a finite planet, of which climate change is only one dimension. <br class=""><br class="">“One can quibble with some assumptions or tweak Smil’s calculations, but the bottom line will not change, only the time it may take humanity to reach a crisis point.”<br class=""><br class=""><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Stephen Running. “Approaching the Limits” Science 15 March 2013.<br class=""><br class="">Book review. Harvesting the Biosphere: What we have taken from Nature. by Vaclav Smil . MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2012. 315 pp. $29, £19.95. ISBN 9780262018562.<br class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class="">
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