Long sections read like a textbook or engineering manual. Although Growth is a brilliant synthesis of everything we can learn from patterns of growth in the natural and human-made world, it’s not for everyone. The author, the Czech-Canadian professor Vaclav Smil, approaches things from a scientist’s point of view, not an astronaut’s, but he reaches the same conclusion: Earth is fragile and “before it is too late, we should embark in earnest on the most fundamental existential of making any future growth compatible with the long-term preservation of the only biosphere we have.”īefore I get into how Smil came to this conclusion, I should warn you. Štai paskutinė jo knygos (Vaclav Smil, Growth) recenzija-pristatymas palydima net video siužetu, kur jis susitinka su pačiu knygos autoriumi – profesoriumi Vaclav Smil’u.Īfter astronaut Rusty Schweickart looked down on Earth from space for the first time, he described a sense of awe that has become common to almost every space traveler since: “You realize that on that little blue and white thing there is everything that means anything to you, all history and music and poetry and art and death and birth and love, all of it on that little spot out there you can cover with your thumb.” NASA calls this realization “the overview effect.” No matter what country you’re from, you return from space with a feeling that our home is tiny, fragile, and something we need to protect.Īnyone who reads the new book Growth, the newest of 39 brilliant books by one of my favorite thinkers, will come away with similar urgency. Kai kurios knygos – “įkištos” jo žmonos: novelės, romanai, kurie Bill’ą sudomino taip, kad neatsitraukė nuo knygos, kol jos nepabaigė.ĭar įdomu, kad jis gan plačiai aprašo ir pristato knygas, pasakoja, kokį poveikį jam padarė vienas ar kitas kūrinys. Jo domėjimasis, be abejo, labai platus, skaitomų knygų spektras pats įvairiausias. Gates arba jau skaitė, arba ruošiasi skaityti. Jo asmeniniame bloge – ilgas sąrašas knygų, kurias B.

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