It’s straightforward to persuade ourselves that we now stay in a dematerialized ethereal world, dominated by digital startups, synthetic intelligence, and monetary providers.
But there’s little proof that now we have decoupled our economic system from its churning starvation for assets. We’re nonetheless reliant on the merchandise of geological processes like coal and quartz, a mineral that’s a wealthy supply of the silicon used to construct laptop chips, to energy our world.
Three current books purpose to reconnect readers with the bodily actuality that underpins the worldwide economic system. Each fills in darkish secrets and techniques concerning the locations, processes, and lived realities that make the economic system tick, and divulges simply how tragic a toll the supplies we depend on take for people and the atmosphere. Learn the complete story.
—Matthew Ponsford
We will nonetheless have good issues
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