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Material World

A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future

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Material World

著者: Ed Conway
ナレーター: Ed Conway
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Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil and lithium. They built our world, and they will transform our future.

These are the six most crucial substances in human history. They took us from the Dark Ages to the present day. They power our computers and phones, build our homes and offices, and create life-saving medicines. But most of us take them completely for granted.

In Material World, Ed Conway travels the globe - from the sweltering depths of the deepest mine in Europe, to spotless silicon chip factories in Taiwan, to the eerie green pools where lithium originates - to uncover a secret world we rarely see. Revealing the true marvel of these substances, he follows the mind-boggling journeys, miraculous processes and little-known companies that turn the raw materials we all need into products of astonishing complexity.

As we wrestle with climate change, energy crises and the threat of new global conflict, Conway shows why these substances matter more than ever before, and how the hidden battle to control them will shape our geopolitical future. This is the story of civilisation - our ambitions and glory, innovations and appetites - from a new perspective: literally from the ground up.

'A compelling narrative of the human story' TIM MARSHALL, author of Prisoners of Geography

'Lively, rich and exciting... full of surprises' PETER FRANKOPAN, author of The Silk Roads

©2023 Ed Conway (P)2023 Penguin Audio

アウトドア・自然 化学 博物学 天然資源 物理学 科学 経済史 経済学 自然・生態学
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An eye-opening celebration of human ingenuity (Andrew Hill)
Lively, rich and exciting ... full of surprises. Underlines that to understand global geopolitics, you need to understand natural resources and geology (Peter Frankopan, author of THE SILK ROADS)
Fascinating . . . A revelation
A compelling narrative of the human story (Tim Marshall, author of PRISONERS OF GEOGRAPHY)
Brilliant (Martin Wolf)
Fascinating, fun, and vitally important. A wonderful exploration of the world we've built yet somehow manage to ignore (Tim Harford, bestselling author of HOW TO MAKE THE WORLD ADD UP)
Revealing and empowering
Expansive, erudite, and edifying. A stunning insight into the materials that shaped our history and built the modern world (Prof. Lewis Dartnell, author of 'BEING HUMAN: How our Biology shaped World History')
[An] enlightening account... he throws new light on how the world works... Not a sentence jars in Material World
A vivid guide to the “material world” on which we all, often unconsciously, rely – and essential background reading to understand securonomics (Rachel Reeves)
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This is an entertaining book with vivid images and great details. My biggest takeaway is to realize just how large a role China plays in harvesting and processing all key 6 materials and their products. I am surprised that the author does not make a specific mention of China in the conclusion when he discusses the dependence of the world on countries that play a part in dominating certain parts of the material process.

China is a big part of all 6 materials if you notice

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