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- Title
How the world really works: The science behind how we got here and where we are going.
- Authors
Nie, Yu
- Abstract
My former colleague and mentor, Prof. David Boyce, loved Vaclav Smil's ([3]) I How the World Really Works i . Here is Smil's thesis in a nutshell: Complete decarbonization of the global economy by 2050 is now conceivable only at the cost of unthinkable global economic retreat, or as a result of extraordinarily rapid transformations relying on near-miraculous technical advances. To be sure, Smil is no climate change denier.
- Subjects
CLIMATE change skepticism; CLIMATE change models; COBALT industry; ENERGY economics; CLIMATE change; FOSSIL fuel power plants; LITHIUM industry
- Publication
Papers in Regional Science, 2023, Vol 102, Issue 4, p897
- ISSN
1056-8190
- Publication type
Book Review
- DOI
10.1111/pirs.12749