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Material World
- A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future
- De: Ed Conway
- Narrado por: Ed Conway
- Duración: 15 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 25
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 25
Sand, iron, salt, oil, copper and lithium. The struggle for these tiny, magical materials has razed empires, demolished civilizations, fed our greed and our ingenuity for thousands of years. But the story is not over. We are often told we now live in a weightless world of information but in fact we dug more stuff out of the earth in 2017 than in all of human history before 1950. And it's getting worse. To make one bar of gold, we now have to dig 5,000 tons of earth. For every tonne of fossil fuels, we extract six tonnes of other materials - from sand to stone to wood to metal.
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3 out of 5 stars
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How complex the material world is
- De David Pring en 02-27-25
- Material World
- A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future
- De: Ed Conway
- Narrado por: Ed Conway
Excellent!
Revisado: 10-25-23
Marvelously written and read - truly enjoyed it. Deserves many listeners- touching on so many key questions and dilemmas in our time, literally grounding us in many material realities!
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The Great Plant-Based Con
- Why Eating a Plants-Only Diet Won't Improve Your Health or Save the Planet
- De: Jayne Buxton
- Narrado por: Laurel Lefkow
- Duración: 19 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 84
Almost every day we are bombarded with the seemingly incontrovertible message that we must reduce our consumption of meat and dairy—or eliminate them from our diets altogether. But what if the pervasive message that the plant-based diet will improve our health and save the planet is misleading—or even false? What if removing animal foods from our diet is a serious threat to human health, and a red herring in the fight against climate change.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great balance with lots of science to back it up
- De Barry Luijbregts en 06-20-22
- The Great Plant-Based Con
- Why Eating a Plants-Only Diet Won't Improve Your Health or Save the Planet
- De: Jayne Buxton
- Narrado por: Laurel Lefkow
The unified case against the plant narrative
Revisado: 09-19-23
This book is the first to my knowledge to cover all the major criticisms against the misleading but popular “good for your health and the planet” - plant based narrative. Thorough and powerful, Buxtons book builds well on established critiques and also brings some fresh findings to this broad and challenging debate. The biggest achievement is however to weave all the threads of the debate into a very readable and coherent story. Well done, I will certainly recommend this book to others!
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This Mortal Coil
- De: Andrew Doig
- Narrado por: Barnaby Edwards
- Duración: 12 h y 22 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2
Dementia, heart failure and cancer are now the leading causes of death in industrialised nations, where life expectancy is mostly above 80. A century ago, life expectancy was about 50 and people died mainly from infectious diseases. In the Middle Ages, death was mostly caused by famine, plague, childbirth and war. In the Palaeolithic period, where our species spent 95% of its time, we frequently died from violence and accidents.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable tour of our ways of dying - and progressing
- De lams en 05-16-22
- This Mortal Coil
- De: Andrew Doig
- Narrado por: Barnaby Edwards
Enjoyable tour of our ways of dying - and progressing
Revisado: 05-16-22
I enjoyed this pleasantly told story of the many ways we tend to die, from the accidents and brutality of our environment as hunter-gatherers, to the myriad of communicable diseases of early civilization to today’s lifestyle and age-related fatalities. The anecdotes are well chosen and written. I missed some elaboration on why heart disease and cancer took off in the 20th century, but perhaps we don’t really know everything yet. I liked the audio narration too! Thumbs up.
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