Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper: How Innovation Keeps Proving the Catastrophists Wrong
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.83 (851 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1610392051 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 400 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Nor must we sacrifice prosperity and human progress to ensure our survival. From the vacuum tube, mass-produced fertilizer, and the printing press to mobile phones, nanotech, and advanced drill rigs, Bryce demonstrates how cutting-edge companies and breakthrough technologies have created a world in which people are living longer, freer, healthier, lives than at any time in human history.The push toward Smaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheaper is happening across multiple sectors. The catastrophists have been wrong since the days of Thomas Malthus. Bryce profiles innovative individuals and companies, from long-established ones like Ford and Intel to upstarts like Aquion Energy and Khan Academy. That same desire is fostering unprecedented prosperity, greater liberty, and yes, better environmental protection.Utilizing on-the-ground reporting from Ottawa to Panama City and Pittsburgh to Bakersfield, Bryce s
Bryce has written a new book well worth readingSmaller Faster Lighter Denser Cheapercaptures the headlong rush of Western culture’s endless drive for ever better technology. It is an extraordinary impulse that has created a world in which more people live longer and more comfortably than ever before.”Fred Andrews, New York TimesFor years, Robert Bryce has been calling for rationality on energy policy. I'm an unapologetic capitalist. The claim that we can and should replace fossil fuels with renewables such as wind and solar is, Bryce says, a "damnable lie" that obscures the far more important question of what we should do to make more energy available to more people, especially 'the more than two billion peopl
A-Plast said A surprising page-turner.. The condition of the book was great. There was no damage and it arrived as expected.Robert Bryce does a great job at writing a page-turner from material that can be arcane and uninteresting. I loved this book and have recommended it to my friends.. A very good example of academic popular writing that comes along every A very good example of academic popular writing that comes along every ten years or so. Bryce is spot on point with regard to viewing natural gas as the energy source of the future. I greatly enjoyed this book.. "An authoritative rebuttal to the shrill Green Left." according to Roger Lorenzini. Well researched and objective view of the climate controversy. Should be a must read for anyone in public office.