Het boek People vs Resources (ISBN:9789463012553) geschreven door Ronald Rovers bestel je op bruna.nl! “It’s materials, stupid!”, could perhaps have been a better title for this book. While the functioning of the earth system is mainly based on huge quantities of solar energy, the earth itself, being an island in the vast ocean of space, has a finite amount of natural resources. We need these precious resources to harvest that solar energy and its derivatives (wind, hydropower, and fossil fuels). Unlike energy, which has a high economic value, resources are being depleted if not squandered at an exponential rate, requiring ever-increasing amounts of energy to yield and process, because of decreasing ore grades. The results are a plethora of nasty side effects, not the least of which is climate change. Our climate crisis is caused by burning and exhausting fossil fuels, which are themselves used to extract and exhaust a limited stock of materials, all for...