Comments on: Book review – The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization/2018/10/08/book-review-the-world-in-a-grain-the-story-of-sand-and-how-it-transformed-civilization/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Mon, 22 May 2023 17:49:40 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/10/08/book-review-the-world-in-a-grain-the-story-of-sand-and-how-it-transformed-civilization/comment-page-1/#comment-19152Thu, 29 Apr 2021 17:28:39 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2329#comment-19152[…] Mineral Wealth is Plundering the Planet) to rare earths to flippin’ sand (see my review of The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization – particularly relevant to urbanisation I would think). It is here I feel the authors suffer a […]

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]]>By: Book review – Earth Wars: The Battle for Global Resources | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/10/08/book-review-the-world-in-a-grain-the-story-of-sand-and-how-it-transformed-civilization/comment-page-1/#comment-17534Sat, 06 Feb 2021 19:50:17 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2329#comment-17534[…] 39) – the upcoming The World for Sale promises to rip the veil off this completely. And though sand does not feature here, he does briefly mention the importance of rare earth elements that […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Anthropocene as a Geological Time Unit: A Guide to the Scientific Evidence and Current Debate | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/10/08/book-review-the-world-in-a-grain-the-story-of-sand-and-how-it-transformed-civilization/comment-page-1/#comment-10056Fri, 29 May 2020 19:13:14 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2329#comment-10056[…] novel types of “rocks” such as cement, asphalt, and concrete (so much so that we risk running out of suitable sand). But we also enrich soils and sediments with fly-ash and soot from burning fossil fuels. And this […]

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]]>By: Book review – The Anthropocene as a Geological Time Unit: A Guide to the Scientific Evidence and Current Debate | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/10/08/book-review-the-world-in-a-grain-the-story-of-sand-and-how-it-transformed-civilization/comment-page-1/#comment-8160Thu, 27 Feb 2020 17:19:56 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2329#comment-8160[…] asphalt, and concrete (so much so that we risk running out of suitable sand, see my review of The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization). But we also enrich soils and sediments with fly-ash and soot from burning fossil fuels. And this […]

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]]>By: Book review – Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/10/08/book-review-the-world-in-a-grain-the-story-of-sand-and-how-it-transformed-civilization/comment-page-1/#comment-3862Fri, 03 May 2019 15:56:52 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2329#comment-3862[…] Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age) to flippin’ sand (see my review of The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization – particularly relevant to urbanisation I would think). It is here I feel the authors suffer a […]

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]]>By: Book review – Burning Up: A Global History of Fossil Fuel Consumption | The Inquisitive Biologist/2018/10/08/book-review-the-world-in-a-grain-the-story-of-sand-and-how-it-transformed-civilization/comment-page-1/#comment-1742Fri, 23 Nov 2018 12:36:20 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2329#comment-1742[…] for the production of steel, aluminium, and concrete (the last one was already highlighted in The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization for its huge demand for sand). Or the design choices made by architects and engineers how, for […]

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]]>By: inquisitivebiologist/2018/10/08/book-review-the-world-in-a-grain-the-story-of-sand-and-how-it-transformed-civilization/comment-page-1/#comment-1426Mon, 08 Oct 2018 08:49:21 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=2329#comment-1426Since publication of the book, David Weintraub has been actively thinking and writing about the moral and ethical quandaries. For interested readers, he sent me the following links

“Before We Settle on Mars, Let’s Make Sure It’s Not Already Occupied,” Zoccalo Public Square, 20 June (http://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2018/06/20/settle-mars-lets-make-sure-not-already-occupied/ideas/essay/)

And for readers outside of Europe (I think these links are unaccessible in Europe due to the GDPR malarkey)
– “Is a Trip to Mars Premature?”, op-ed in Baltimore Sun, 22 June (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-op-0624-mars-life-20180618-story.html)
– “We need to know if there is life on Mars before we send humans there,” op-ed in Los Angeles Times, 30 April (http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-weintraub-life-on-mars-insight-lander-20180429-story.html).

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