Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature by Vaclav Smil

Harvesting the Biosphere: What We Have Taken from Nature

Vaclav Smil

320 pages hardcover 2012

3 editions

nonfiction science informative medium-paced
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An interdisciplinary and quantitative account of human claims on the biosphere's stores of living matter, from prehistoric hunting to modern energy production.The biosphere--the Earth's thin layer of life--dates from nearly four billion years ago,...

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