How The World Really Works

Vaclav Smil

PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE

If you want a scientist’s guide to our past, present and future, this is the book. Providing a guiding light on our fight against climate change, Smil explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. He draws on the latest science in How the World Really Works to tackle sources of misinformation head- on and to discuss the most profound question of our age: are we irrevocably doomed or is there a brighter utopia ahead?