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03094aam a2200361 i 4500 001 7B4A6BB8300611EDA406B4E81FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220909010236 008 201003s2021 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020029030 020 $a 0190060662 020 $a 9780190060664 035 $a (OCoLC)1200832076 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDX $d GO6 $d UKMGB $d YDX $d KAY $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a CB357 $b .S59 2021 082 00 $a 909.82 $2 23 100 1 $a Smil, Vaclav, $e author. 245 10 $a Grand transitions : $b how the modern world was made / $c Vaclav Smil. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2021] 300 $a xi, 363 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Epochal transitions -- Populations -- Agricultures and diets -- Energies -- Economies -- Environment -- Outcomes and outlooks. 520 $a "The modern world was created through the combination and complex interactions of five grand transitions. First, the demographic transition changed the total numbers, dynamics, structure, and residential pattern of populations. The agricultural and dietary transition led to the emergence of highly productive cropping and animal husbandry (subsidized by fossil energies and electricity), which eliminated famines, reduced malnutrition, and improved the health of populations but also resulted in enormous food waste and had many environmental consequences. The energy transition brought the world from traditional biomass fuels and human and animal labor to fossil fuel, ever more efficient electricity, lights, and motors, which transformed both agricultural and industrial production and enabled mass-scale mobility and instant communication. Economic transition has been marked by relatively high growth rates of total national and global product, by fundamental structural transformation (from farming to industries to services) and by an increasing share of humanity living in affluent societies, enjoying unprecedented quality of life. These transitions have made many intensifying demands on the environment, resulting in ecosystemic degradation, loss of biodiversity, pollution, and eventually change on the planetary level, with global warming being the most worrisome development. This book traces the genesis of these transitions, their interactions and complicated progress as well as their outcomes and impacts, explaining how the modern world was made-and then offers a forward-thinking examination of some key unfolding transitions and appraising their challenges and possible results"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Civilization, Modern $x History. $9 202285 650 0 $a Technology and civilization $x History. $9 853727 650 0 $a Population $x History. $9 68363 650 0 $a Economic history. $9 12051 650 0 $a Human ecology $x History. $9 657837 941 $a 1 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20220909064459.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7B4A6BB8300611EDA406B4E81FECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b KAYInitiate Another SILO Locator Search