Comments on: Book review – More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources – And What Happens Next/2020/04/27/book-review-more-from-less-the-surprising-story-of-how-we-learned-to-prosper-using-fewer-resources-and-what-happens-next/Reviewing fascinating science books since 2017Sat, 26 Apr 2025 09:33:52 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Book review – Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/04/27/book-review-more-from-less-the-surprising-story-of-how-we-learned-to-prosper-using-fewer-resources-and-what-happens-next/comment-page-1/#comment-95242Sat, 26 Apr 2025 09:33:52 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=7545#comment-95242[…] our economies are dematerialising. This confirms what I suspected about Andrew McAfee’s book More from Less: look at the global flow of materials and energy, and it is revealed for the accounting trick it is […]

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]]>By: Book review – Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won’t Save Us or the Environment | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/04/27/book-review-more-from-less-the-surprising-story-of-how-we-learned-to-prosper-using-fewer-resources-and-what-happens-next/comment-page-1/#comment-16778Sun, 10 Jan 2021 21:29:24 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=7545#comment-16778[…] they come with their own unintended consequences. Furthermore, they write, efficiency gains (e.g. dematerialisation) have their limits and are often followed by increased consumption, a phenomenon known as the […]

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]]>By: Book review – Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/04/27/book-review-more-from-less-the-surprising-story-of-how-we-learned-to-prosper-using-fewer-resources-and-what-happens-next/comment-page-1/#comment-10382Mon, 08 Jun 2020 12:21:39 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=7545#comment-10382[…] Moore’s law and the astounding advances in computing power is misplaced and he is critical of dematerialization advocates, pointing out that, in absolute terms, we are only using more of […]

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]]>By: Book review – Abundant Earth: Toward an Ecological Civilization | The Inquisitive Biologist/2020/04/27/book-review-more-from-less-the-surprising-story-of-how-we-learned-to-prosper-using-fewer-resources-and-what-happens-next/comment-page-1/#comment-9274Mon, 27 Apr 2020 10:11:46 +0000http://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/?p=7545#comment-9274[…] Our Planet, and Techno-Fix: Why Technology Won’t Save Us or the Environment and my review of More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources – And What… as but two opposing examples. My big bug-bear with both is that nobody ever seems to ask the […]

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