Material World - The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
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English | November 7, 2023 | ISBN: 0593534344 | True EPUB | 512 pages | 5 MB
Author: Ed Conway

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.