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Making the Modern World - Vaclav Smil
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How much further should the affluent world push its material consumption? Does relative dematerialization lead to absolute decline in demand for materials? These and many other questions are discussed and answered in Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization. 
Over the course of time, the modern world has become dependent on unprecedented flows of materials. Now even the most efficient production processes and the highest practical rates of recycling may not be enough to result in dematerialization rates that would be high enough to negate the rising demand for materials generated by continuing population growth and rising standards of living. This book explores the costs of this dependence and the potential for substantial dematerialization of modern economies. 
Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization considers the principal materials used throughout history, from wood and stone, through to metals, alloys, plastics and silicon, describing their extraction and production as well as their dominant applications. The evolving productivities of material extraction, processing, synthesis, finishing and distribution, and the energy costs and environmental impact of rising material consumption are examined in detail. The book concludes with an outlook for the future, discussing the prospects for dematerialization and potential constrains on materials. 
This interdisciplinary text provides useful perspectives for readers with backgrounds including resource economics, environmental studies, energy analysis, mineral geology, industrial organization, manufacturing and material science. 

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Awesome - this guy is Gates fav writer! Got any more by him, please?
in answer to where are MORE vaclav smil uploads...........(links[until domain change])

Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing

https://thepiratebay.gd/torrent/12078961/Made_in_the_USA__The_Rise_and_Retreat_of_American_Manufacturing

Energy in Nature and Society: General Energetics of Complex...

https://thepiratebay.gd/torrent/12098803/Energy_in_Nature_and_Society__General_Energetics_of_Complex...


Prime Movers of Globalization Diesel Engines & Gas Turbines

https://thepiratebay.gd/torrent/12098823/Prime_Movers_of_Globalization__Diesel_Engines__amp__Gas_Turbines
also may have more, please check my upload listings & check.

Thanks Greatly to original uploader here as well!
Thank you for the upload!! :)