Comments on: Book review – Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities

By: Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save The World - 3 Quarks Daily

Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save The World - 3 Quarks Daily — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 15:50:51 +0000

[…] basic human needs. The problem is growth for growth’s sake. In nature, growth is ubiquitous but normally follows a sigmoidal curve of some kind, eventually coming to a halt. Capitalism is different, which brings us to point two. People often […]

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By: Book review – Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sat, 26 Apr 2025 09:33:40 +0000

[…] human needs. The problem is growth for growth’s sake. In nature, growth is ubiquitous but normally follows a sigmoidal curve of some kind, eventually coming to a halt. Capitalism is different, which brings us to point two. People often […]

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By: Book review – The Progress Illusion: Reclaiming Our Future from the Fairytale of Economics | The Inquisitive Biologist

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:20:11 +0000

[…] seen as the initial stage of a maturing economy, as a temporary phase towards stability, which is a universal characteristic of growth in the natural world. That said, I was surprised by two omissions. Most glaring to me is that, despite referencing work […]

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By: 书评 - 《增长：从微生物到超级城市》 - 偏执的码农

书评 - 《增长：从微生物到超级城市》 - 偏执的码农 — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 23:18:32 +0000

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By: Book review – How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 19 Jan 2023 15:15:45 +0000

[…] forty books. Some of these have found their way onto my shelves and I previously reviewed his book Growth, which was more a conceptual work that looked at growth in its many guises. Here I finally had the […]

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By: Book review – Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green | The Inquisitive Biologist

Sat, 31 Dec 2022 12:05:16 +0000

[…] based on extraction cannot be infinite” (p. 246) and quotes from Vaclav Smil’s book Growth, his solution is conscious consumerism. Wait, after you just wrote a book exposing how enormous the […]

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By: Book review – A Natural History of the Future: What the Laws of Biology Tell Us About the Destiny of the Human Species | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 22 Aug 2022 10:12:34 +0000

[…] nature. Other prominent candidates are trophic cascades (a good example of the law of escape) and growth, growth trajectories, and the concept of carrying capacity (i.e. the limits to growth). Of course, there is only so much […]

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By: Book review – A Question of Power: Electricity and the Wealth of Nations | The Inquisitive Biologist

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 13:09:46 +0000

[…] are hugely problematic. Since Bryce is fond of Smil’s work, let me quote from his 2019 book Growth: “we urgently need to consume less. A lot less” (p. 498) and “recognize the […]

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By: Book review – A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future | The Inquisitive Biologist

Thu, 29 Oct 2020 15:03:38 +0000

[…] organisms. Similarly unmentioned regarding renewable energy is the concept of energy density and our reliance on increasingly energy-dense fuels as civilization progressed. There is no consideration of the tremendous amount of resources needed […]

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