Wednesday 2 April 2014

TYGER of TYGERS #2

TYGER of  TYGERs continues...

...to present Reality Facts in this encyclopaedic  "...interdisciplinary text [that] will provide useful perspectives for readers  with backgrounds including resource economics, environmental studies, energy analysis, mineral geology, industrial organization, manufacturing, and material science”  as the back cover description advises.


Vaclav Smil:  Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization, 
First Edition, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2014
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Bound to be seen as the standard reference on how to measure and compare the world's material health&wealth - and GDP is not one of the telling metrics.


And remember Alexius Meinong: 
"TRUTH IS A PURELY HUMAN CONSTRUCT BUT FACTS ARE ETERNAL"
Here be Facts.

Go, get yourself some Tyger Nights.....

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