Vaclav Smil

thumb|Vaclav Smil (2010) Vaclav Smil (born 9 December 1943) is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada. Quotes How the World Really Works (2022) The gap between wishful thinking and reality is vast, but in a democratic society no contest of ideas and proposals can proceed in rational ways without all sides sharing at least a modicum of relevant information about the real world, rather than trotting out their biases and advancing claims disconnected from physical possibilities. Introduction Quotes from interviews Apple! Boy, what a story. No taxes paid, everything made abroad — yet everyone worships them. This new iPhone, there's nothing new in it. Just a golden color. What the hell, right? When people start playing with color, you know they're played out. This Is the Man Bill Gates Thinks You Absolutely Should Be Reading in Wired (25 November 2013) External links Category:1943 births Category:Living people Category:Academics from Canada Category:Educators from Canada Category:Economists from Canada Category:Non-fiction authors from Canada Category:Science authors Category:Geographers from Canada