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The radical, paradigm-shifting international bestseller that destroys our delusions about energy consumption and will change the way we talk about climate change.
We have long been taught that humanity’s relationship with energy is one of progress, with wood superseded by coal, coal by oil, oil by nuclear—until at some future point everything will be replaced by “green” energy. But the long-held belief in transition and sustainability is completely untrue, Jean-Baptiste Fressoz argues.
More and More and More demolishes this disastrous fallacy, showing how our industrial age and beyond has in fact been powered by an ever-greater accumulation of each major energy source feeding off the others. Using a fascinating array of examples from past and present, from the whaling and candle-making industries of the nineteenth century to our post-nuclear age today, Fressoz describes how humanity has gorged on all forms of energy—with whole forests used to prop up coal mines, and fossil fuels remaining central to the creation of innumerable new products we rely on every day. While nations have signed climate agreements aimed at reducing fossil fuels, the sad truth is that the world today burns more wood, coal, and carbon than ever before.
More and More and More forces listeners to confront hard truths, including how “transition” was originally promoted by energy companies, not as a genuine plan, but as a way to put off any meaningful change. It offers a clear-eyed understanding of the modern world in all its voracious reality and shines a hard light on the true nature of the enormous challenges eight billion of us face, as we stand at the precipice of planetary crisis.
©2025 Jean-Baptiste Fressoz (P)2025 HarperCollins PublishersLos oyentes también disfrutaron...
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 41
It used to be that ravaging another country’s economy required blockading its ports and laying siege to its cities. Now all it takes is a statement posted online by the U.S. government. In Chokepoints, Edward Fishman, a former top State Department sanctions official, takes us deep into the back rooms of power to reveal the untold history of the last two decades of U.S. foreign policy, in which America renounced the gospel of globalization and waged a new kind of economic war.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Impressive
- De Harry Helbock en 06-17-25
De: Edward Fishman
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Jesus Wept
- Seven Popes and the Battle for the Soul of the Catholic Church
- De: Philip Shenon
- Narrado por: Richard Cohen
- Duración: 22 h y 16 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 29
When the jolly Italian peasant-turned-cardinal Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli of Venice was elected Pope John XXIII in 1958, change was in the air. The Church, many said, had refused to enter the twentieth century. In response, Pope John launched Vatican II, an “ecumenical council” that summoned hundreds of church leaders to Rome. It marked one of the most progressive turns the Church had taken in centuries: “medicine of mercy,” as Pope John called it. Yet not everyone in the Church was prepared to accept this modernization.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Too long by 3x
- De Road Reader en 04-21-25
De: Philip Shenon
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The Optimist
- De: Keach Hagey
- Narrado por: Will Damron
- Duración: 12 h y 21 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 20
In The Optimist, the Wall Street Journal reporter Keach Hagey presents the most detailed account yet of Altman’s rise, from his precocious childhood in St. Louis to his first, failed startup experience; his time as legendary entrepreneur Paul Graham’s protégé and successor as head of Y Combinator, the start-up accelerator where Altman became the premier power broker in Silicon Valley; the founding of OpenAI and his recruitment of a small yet superior team; and his struggle to keep his company at the cutting edge while fending off determined rivals, including Elon Musk.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent, lots of new information, and no slant
- De MR en 05-24-25
De: Keach Hagey
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The Thinking Machine
- Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
- De: Stephen Witt
- Narrado por: Stephen Witt
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 87
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 87
In June of 2024, thirty-one years after its founding in a Denny’s restaurant, Nvidia became the most valuable corporation on Earth. The Thinking Machine is the astonishing story of how a designer of video game equipment conquered the market for AI hardware, and in the process re-invented the computer. Essential to Nvidia’s meteoric success is its visionary CEO Jensen Huang, who more than a decade ago, on the basis of a few promising scientific results, bet his entire company on AI.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderful book!
- De John K. Clark en 04-13-25
De: Stephen Witt