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From The New Yorker, February 20:A ruthless dissector of unwarranted assumptions takes on environmental catastrophists and techno-optimists.Not long ago, I randomly opened Vaclav Smil’s recent book “Size: How It Explains the World.”
The first paragraph I read, in a chapter about good and bad design,
concerned rubber flip-flops, which Smil described as among the world’s
most widely owned
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