Material World by Ed Conway

Material World by Ed Conway

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOK REVIEW>EDITORS' CHOICE - AN>ECONOMIST BEST BOK OF THE YEAR - Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and greed for thousands of years. Without them, our modern world would not exist, and the battle to control them will determine our future. - Finalist for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award

The fiber-optic cables that weave the World Wide Web, the copper veins of our electric grids, the silicon chips and lithium batteries that power our phones and cars: though it can feel like we now live in a weightless world of information--what Ed Conway calls the ethereal world--our twenty-first-century lives are still very much rooted in the material.

In fact, we dug more stuff out of the earth in 2017 than in all of human history before 1950. For every ton of fossil fuels, we extract six tons of other materials, from sand to stone to wood to metal. And in>Material World, Conway embarks on an epic journey across continents, cultures, and epochs to reveal the underpinnings of modern life on Earth--traveling 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.

Material World is a celebration of the humans and the human networks, the miraculous processes and the little-known companies, that combine to turn raw materials into things of wonder. This is the story of human civilization from an entirely new perspective: the ground up.

Edmund Conway ist Wirtschaftsredakteur des Daily Telegraph und des Sunday Telegraph mit groü¾™¦¼er internationaler Erfahrung. Bei mehreren Weltwirtschaftsgipfeln in Davos oblag ihm die Koordination der Medien. Conway hat am Pembroke College in Oxford studiert und lebt in London.

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Titel	Material World
Autor	Ed Conway
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Verlag	Alfred A. Knopf
Erscheinungsjahr	2023-11-07
Seitenanzahl	512
Preise	Long-listed for Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award 2023
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