Growth : From Microorganisms to Megacities
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A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from
tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and
civilizations.Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim
of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of
microorganisms and galaxies, it shapes the capabilities of our
extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies.
Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a
rising gross domestic product, a child's growth chart, the spread
of cancerous cells.In this magisterial book, Vaclav Smil offers
systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny
organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations. Smil
takes readers from bacterial invasions through animal metabolisms
to megacities and the global economy. He begins with organisms
whose mature sizes range from microscopic to enormous, looking at
disease-causing microbes, the cultivation of staple crops, and
human growth from infancy to adulthood.He examines the growth of
energy conversions and man-made objects that enable economic
activities--developments that have been essential to civilization.
Finally, he looks at growth in complex systems, beginning with the
growth of human populations and proceeding to the growth of cities.
He considers the challenges of tracing the growth of empires and
civilizations, explaining that we can chart the growth of organisms
across individual and evolutionary time, but that the progress of
societies and economies, not so linear, encompasses both decline
and renewal.The trajectory of modern civilization, driven by
competing imperatives of material growth and biospheric limits,
Smil tells us, remains uncertain.
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