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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaclav_Smil" title="Vaclav Smil – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Vaclav Smil" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%92%CE%AC%CF%84%CF%83%CE%BB%CE%B1%CE%B2_%CE%A3%CE%BC%CE%B9%CE%BB" title="Βάτσλαβ Σμιλ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Βάτσλαβ Σμιλ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaclav_Smil" title="Vaclav Smil – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Vaclav Smil" data-language-autonym="Español" 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class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8E%D5%A1%D6%81%D5%AC%D5%A1%D5%BE_%D5%8D%D5%B4%D5%AB%D5%AC" title="Վացլավ Սմիլ – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Վացլավ Սմիլ" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaclav_Smil" title="Vaclav Smil – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Vaclav Smil" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%95%D7%90%D7%A6%D7%9C%D7%91_%D7%A1%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9C" title="ואצלב סמיל – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ואצלב סמיל" 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searchaux" style="display:none">Czech-Canadian scientist and policy analyst (born 1943)</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output 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class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1943-12-09</span>) </span>December 9, 1943<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 80)</span><br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Plze%C5%88" title="Plzeň">Plzeň</a>, <a href="/wiki/Protectorate_of_Bohemia_and_Moravia" title="Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia">Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Canadian" class="mw-redirect" title="Canadian">Canadian</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Alma mater</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Charles_University_in_Prague" class="mw-redirect" title="Charles University in Prague">Charles University in Prague</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_State_University" title="Pennsylvania State University">Pennsylvania State University</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><b>Scientific career</b></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Fields</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Environmental_science" title="Environmental science">Environmental science</a>, <a href="/wiki/Public_policy" title="Public policy">public policy</a> studies</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Institutions</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/University_of_Manitoba" title="University of Manitoba">University of Manitoba</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Thesis" title="Thesis">Thesis</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><i> "Světová a československá energetika" Trans. "Energy Policy in Czechoslovakia and the world." </i> <span style="font-size:97%;">(1969)</span></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://vaclavsmil.com">VaclavSmil.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Vaclav Smil</b> (<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">Czech:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="cs-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Czech" title="Help:IPA/Czech">[ˈvaːtslaf<span class="wrap"> </span>ˈsmɪl]</a></span>;<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> born December 9, 1943) is a Czech-Canadian scientist and policy analyst.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is <a href="/wiki/Distinguished_Professor" class="mw-redirect" title="Distinguished Professor">Distinguished Professor</a> Emeritus<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in the Faculty of <a href="/wiki/Environmental_science" title="Environmental science">Environment</a> at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Manitoba" title="University of Manitoba">University of Manitoba</a> in <a href="/wiki/Winnipeg,_Manitoba" class="mw-redirect" title="Winnipeg, Manitoba">Winnipeg, Manitoba</a>, Canada. His interdisciplinary research interests encompass energy, environmental, food, <a href="/wiki/Population" title="Population">population</a>, economic, historical and <a href="/wiki/Public_policy" title="Public policy">public policy</a> studies. He has also applied these approaches to energy, food and <a href="/wiki/Environmental_governance_in_China" class="mw-redirect" title="Environmental governance in China">environmental affairs of China</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vaclav_Smil&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life and education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Smil was born during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> in <a href="/wiki/Plze%C5%88" title="Plzeň">Plzeň</a>, at that time in the German <a href="/wiki/Protectorate_of_Bohemia_and_Moravia" title="Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia">Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia</a> (present-day <a href="/wiki/Czech_Republic" title="Czech Republic">Czech Republic</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-sciencemag_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sciencemag-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His father was a police officer and his mother a bookkeeper.<sup id="cite_ref-sciencemag_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sciencemag-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Smil completed his undergraduate studies and began his graduate work (culminating in the RNDr., an intermediate graduate degree similar to the Anglo-American <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Philosophy" title="Master of Philosophy">Master of Philosophy</a> credential, in 1965)<sup id="cite_ref-ProCon_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ProCon-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of <a href="/wiki/Charles_University" title="Charles University">Charles University</a> in Prague.<sup id="cite_ref-sciencemag_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sciencemag-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After graduation he refused to join the <a href="/wiki/Communist_party" title="Communist party">Communist party</a>, undermining his job prospects, though he found employment at a regional planning office.<sup id="cite_ref-sciencemag_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sciencemag-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He married Eva, who was studying to be a physician.<sup id="cite_ref-sciencemag_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sciencemag-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1969, following the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_invasion_of_Czechoslovakia" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia">Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia</a> and Eva's graduation, the Smils emigrated to the United States, leaving the country months before a Soviet travel ban shut the borders.<sup id="cite_ref-sciencemag_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sciencemag-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "That was not a minor sacrifice, you know?" Smil says.<sup id="cite_ref-sciencemag_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sciencemag-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Smil then received his <a href="/wiki/Ph.D." class="mw-redirect" title="Ph.D.">Ph.D.</a> in <a href="/wiki/Geography" title="Geography">geography</a> from the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences of <a href="/wiki/Pennsylvania_State_University" title="Pennsylvania State University">Pennsylvania State University</a> in 1971.<sup id="cite_ref-ProCon_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ProCon-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-sciencemag_4-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sciencemag-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bryce_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bryce-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vaclav_Smil&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1972, Smil took his first job offer at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Manitoba" title="University of Manitoba">University of Manitoba</a> where he remained for decades, until his retirement.<sup id="cite_ref-sciencemag_4-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sciencemag-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He taught introductory environmental science courses among other subjects dealing with energy, atmospheric change, China, population and economic development.<sup id="cite_ref-sciencemag_4-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sciencemag-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Position_on_energy">Position on energy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vaclav_Smil&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Position on energy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Smil is skeptical that there will be a rapid transition to clean energy, believing it will take much longer than many predict.<sup id="cite_ref-sciencemag_4-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sciencemag-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Smil said "I have never been wrong on these major energy and environmental issues because I have nothing to sell," unlike many energy companies and politicians.<sup id="cite_ref-sciencemag_4-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sciencemag-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Smil noted in 2018 that coal, oil, and natural gas continue to make up 90% of the <a href="/wiki/Primary_energy" title="Primary energy">primary energy</a> sources used in the world. Although renewable energy technologies have improved over time, the global share of energy produced from fossil fuels since 2000 has increased.<sup id="cite_ref-sciencemag_4-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sciencemag-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Smil emphasizes that replacing the use of fossil carbon in the production of <a href="/wiki/Pig_iron" title="Pig iron">primary iron</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cement" title="Cement">cement</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ammonia" title="Ammonia">ammonia</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Plastic" title="Plastic">plastics</a> is a significant and ongoing challenge in the industrial sector. Together, these industries account for 15% of the world's total fossil fuel consumption.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Smil stresses the need for energy prices to reflect their true costs, including greenhouse gas emissions, and promotes a decrease in the demand for fossil fuels through <a href="/wiki/Energy_conservation" title="Energy conservation">energy-saving measures</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Position_on_economic_growth">Position on economic growth</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vaclav_Smil&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Position on economic growth"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Smil believes economic growth has to end, that all growth is <a href="/wiki/Logistic_growth" class="mw-redirect" title="Logistic growth">logistic</a> rather than <a href="/wiki/Exponential_growth" title="Exponential growth">exponential</a>, and that humans could consume much lower levels of materials and energy.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-sciencemag.org_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sciencemag.org-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception">Reception</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vaclav_Smil&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Reception"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Included among Smil's admirers is Microsoft co-founder <a href="/wiki/Bill_Gates" title="Bill Gates">Bill Gates</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who has read all of Smil's 36 books.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "I wait for new Smil books the way some people wait for the next <a href="/wiki/Star_Wars" title="Star Wars">Star Wars</a> movie," Gates wrote in 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-sciencemag_4-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sciencemag-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "He's a slayer of bullshit," says <a href="/wiki/David_Keith_(scientist)" class="mw-redirect" title="David Keith (scientist)">David Keith</a>, an energy and climate scientist at <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-sciencemag_4-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sciencemag-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vaclav_Smil&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>His wife Eva is a physician<sup id="cite_ref-sciencemag_4-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sciencemag-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and his son David is an organic synthetic chemist. </p><p>He lives in a house with unusually thick insulation, grows some of his own food, and eats meat roughly once a week.<sup id="cite_ref-sciencemag.org_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sciencemag.org-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He reads 60 to 110 non-technical books a year and keeps a list of all books he has read since 1969. He "does not intend to have a cell phone ever."<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Smil is known for being "intensely private", shunning the press while letting his books speak for themselves.<sup id="cite_ref-sciencemag_4-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sciencemag-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the University of Manitoba, he only ever showed up at one faculty meeting (since the 1980s). The school accepted his reclusiveness so long as he kept teaching and publishing highly rated books.<sup id="cite_ref-sciencemag_4-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sciencemag-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honors">Awards and honors</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vaclav_Smil&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Awards and honors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>He is a Fellow of the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Society_of_Canada" title="Royal Society of Canada">Royal Society of Canada</a> (Science Academy)<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the recipient of the <a href="/wiki/American_Association_for_the_Advancement_of_Science" title="American Association for the Advancement of Science">American Association for the Advancement of Science</a> Award for Public Understanding of Science and Technology in 2000.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2010, he was named by <i><a href="/wiki/Foreign_Policy" title="Foreign Policy">Foreign Policy</a></i> magazine to its list of FP Top 100 Global Thinkers.<sup id="cite_ref-fp_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fp-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2013, he was appointed by the <a href="/wiki/Governor_General_of_Canada" title="Governor General of Canada">Governor General</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Canada" title="Order of Canada">Order of Canada</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the fall of 2013, he was the EADS Distinguished Visitor at the <a href="/wiki/American_Academy_in_Berlin" title="American Academy in Berlin">American Academy in Berlin</a>. </p><p>He has been an invited speaker in more than 300 conferences and workshops in the US, Canada, Europe, Asia and Africa, has lectured at many universities in <a href="/wiki/North_America" title="North America">North America</a>, Europe and <a href="/wiki/East_Asia" title="East Asia">East Asia</a> and has worked as a consultant for many US, <a href="/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> and <a href="/wiki/International_institution" class="mw-redirect" title="International institution">international institutions</a>. </p><p>His book <i>How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We're Going</i> was a nominee for the 2022 <a href="/wiki/Balsillie_Prize_for_Public_Policy" title="Balsillie Prize for Public Policy">Balsillie Prize for Public Policy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Publications">Publications</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vaclav_Smil&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Publications"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Books">Books</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vaclav_Smil&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin refbegin-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em"> <ul><li>2023 : <i>Invention and Innovation: A Brief History of Hype and Failure</i>. The MIT Press. <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0262048057" title="Special:BookSources/978-0262048057">978-0262048057</a></li> <li>2023 : <i>Size: How It Explains the World</i>. Viking/Penguin. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0241506998" title="Special:BookSources/978-0241506998">978-0241506998</a></li> <li>2022 : <i>How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future</i>. Viking/Penguin. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0241454398" title="Special:BookSources/978-0241454398">978-0241454398</a></li> <li>2021 : <i>Grand Transitions: How the Modern World Was Made</i>. <a href="/wiki/Oxford_University_Press" title="Oxford University Press">Oxford University Press</a>. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0241454398" title="Special:BookSources/978-0241454398">978-0241454398</a></li> <li>2020 : <i>Numbers Don't Lie: 71 Things You Need To Know About The World</i>. Penguin. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0241454411" title="Special:BookSources/978-0241454411">978-0241454411</a></li> <li>2019 : <i>Growth: From Microorganisms to Megacities</i>. <a href="/wiki/The_MIT_Press" class="mw-redirect" title="The MIT Press">The MIT Press</a>. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0262042835" title="Special:BookSources/0262042835">0262042835</a></li> <li>2017 : <i><a href="/wiki/Energy_and_Civilization:_A_History" title="Energy and Civilization: A History">Energy and Civilization: A History</a></i>. The MIT Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0262035774" title="Special:BookSources/978-0262035774">978-0262035774</a></li> <li>2015 : <i>Natural Gas: Fuel for the 21st Century</i>. Wiley. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1119012863" title="Special:BookSources/978-1119012863">978-1119012863</a></li> <li>2015 : <i>Power Density: A Key to Understanding Energy Sources and Uses</i>. The MIT Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0262029148" title="Special:BookSources/978-0262029148">978-0262029148</a></li> <li>2013 : <i>Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization</i>. Wiley. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1119942535" title="Special:BookSources/978-1119942535">978-1119942535</a></li> <li>2013 : <i>Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing</i>. The MIT Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0262019385" title="Special:BookSources/978-0262019385">978-0262019385</a></li> <li>2013 : <i>Should We Eat Meat? Evolution and Consequences of Modern Carnivory</i>. Wiley. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1118278727" title="Special:BookSources/978-1118278727">978-1118278727</a></li> <li>2013 : <i>Harvesting the Biosphere; What We Have Taken from Nature</i>. The MIT Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0262018562" title="Special:BookSources/978-0262018562">978-0262018562</a></li> <li>2012 : <i>Japan’s Dietary Transition and Its Impacts</i>. The MIT Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0313381775" title="Special:BookSources/978-0313381775">978-0313381775</a></li> <li>2010 : <i>Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines</i>. The MIT Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0262014434" title="Special:BookSources/978-0262014434">978-0262014434</a></li> <li>2010 : <i>Energy Myths and Realities: Bringing Science to the Energy Policy Debate</i>. The AEI Press.<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0844743288" title="Special:BookSources/978-0844743288">978-0844743288</a></li> <li>2010 : <i>Energy Transitions: History, Requirements, Prospects</i>. Praeger. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0313381775" title="Special:BookSources/978-0313381775">978-0313381775</a></li> <li>2010 : <i>Why America Is Not a New Rome</i>. MIT Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0262195935" title="Special:BookSources/978-0262195935">978-0262195935</a></li> <li>2008 : <i>Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years</i>. The MIT Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0262195867" title="Special:BookSources/978-0262195867">978-0262195867</a></li> <li>2008 : <i>Oil: A Beginner's Guide</i>. Oneworld Publications. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1851685714" title="Special:BookSources/978-1851685714">978-1851685714</a></li> <li>2008 : <i>Energy in Nature and Society: General Energetics of Complex Systems</i>. The MIT Press.<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780262693561" title="Special:BookSources/9780262693561">9780262693561</a></li> <li>2006 : <i>Energy: A Beginner's Guide</i>. Oneworld Publications. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1851684526" title="Special:BookSources/978-1851684526">978-1851684526</a></li> <li>2006 : <i>Transforming the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations and Their Consequences</i>. Oxford University Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780195168754" title="Special:BookSources/9780195168754">9780195168754</a></li> <li>2005 : <i>Creating the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations of 1867–1914 and Their Lasting Impact</i>. Oxford University Press. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780195168747" title="Special:BookSources/9780195168747">9780195168747</a></li> <li>2004 : <i>China’s Past, China’s Future</i>. RoutledgeCurzon.</li> <li>2003 : <i>Energy at the Crossroads: Global Perspectives and Uncertainties</i>. The MIT Press.</li> <li>2002 : <i>The Earth's Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics and Change</i>. The MIT Press.</li> <li>2001 : <i>Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch and the Transformation of World Food Production</i>. The MIT Press.</li> <li>2000 : <i>Feeding the World: A Challenge for the 21st Century</i>. The MIT Press.</li> <li>1998 : <i>Energies: An Illustrated Guide to the Biosphere and Civilization</i>. The MIT Press.</li> <li>1997 : <i>Cycles of Life: Civilization and the Biosphere</i>. Scientific American Library.</li> <li>1994 : <i>Energy in World History</i>. Westview Press.</li> <li>1993 : <i>China's Environment: An Inquiry into the Limits of National Development</i>. M. E. Sharpe. Winner of the 1995 <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Levenson_Book_Prize" title="Joseph Levenson Book Prize">Joseph Levenson Book Prize</a>.</li> <li>1993 : <i>Global Ecology: Environmental Change and Social Flexibility</i>. Routledge.</li> <li>1991 : <i>General Energetics: Energy in the Biosphere and Civilization</i>. Wiley.</li> <li>1988 : <i>Energy in China's Modernization</i>. M.E. Sharpe.</li> <li>1987 : <i>Energy Food Environment: Realities Myths Options</i>. Oxford University Press.</li> <li>1985 : <i>Carbon Nitrogen Sulfur: Human Interference in Grand Biospheric Cycles</i>. Plenum Press.</li> <li>1984 : <i>The Bad Earth: Environmental Degradation in China</i>. M.E. Sharpe.</li> <li>1983 : <i>Biomass Energies: Resources, Links, Constraints</i>. Plenum Press.</li> <li>1982 : (in collaboration with P. Nachman and T. V. Long, II). <i>Energy Analysis in Agriculture: An Application to U.S. Corn Production</i>. Westview Press.</li> <li>1980 : (in collaboration with W. E. Knowland). <i>Energy in the Developing World</i>. Oxford University Press.</li> <li>1976 : <i>China's Energy: Achievements, Problems, Prospects</i>. Praeger.</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Articles">Articles</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Vaclav_Smil&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Articles"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239549316"><div class="refbegin refbegin-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em"> <ul><li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://inference-review.com/article/good-eats">Good Eats</a>". <i>Inference</i>, vol. 5, no. 1 (December 12, 2019)</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/sputnik-at-60">Sputnik at 60</a>". <i>IEEE Spectrum</i>, September 26, 2017.</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/a-skeptic-looks-at-alternative-energy">A Skeptic Looks at Alternative Energy</a>". <i>IEEE Spectrum</i>, July 2012.</li> <li>"Energy innovation as a process: Lessons from LNG". <i>Master Resource: A Free-Market Energy Blog</i>, January 11, 2010.</li> <li>"Two decades later: Nikkei and lessons from the fall". <i>The American</i>, December 29, 2009.</li> <li>"The Iron Age & coal-based coke: A neglected case of fossil-fuel dependence". <i>Master Resource: A Free-Market Energy Blog</i>, September 17, 2009.</li> <li>"U.S. energy policy: The need for radical departures". <i>Issues in Science and Technology</i>, Summer 2009:47–50.</li> <li>"Long-range energy forecasts are no more than fairy tales". <i>Nature </i>453<b>:</b>154 (2008).</li> <li>"Moore's curse and the great energy delusion". <i>The American</i> 2(6): 34–41 (2008).</li> <li>"Water news: bad, good and virtual". <i><a href="/wiki/American_Scientist" title="American Scientist">American Scientist</a></i>, 96:399–407 (2008).</li> <li>"On meat, fish and statistics: The global food regime and animal consumption in the United States and Japan". <i>Japan Focus</i>, October 19, 2008.</li> <li>James N. Galloway, Marshall Burke, G. Eric Bradford, Rosamond Naylor, Walter Falcon, Ashok K. Chapagain, Joanne C. Gaskell, Ellen McCullough, Harold A. Mooney, Kirsten L. L. Oleson, Henning Steinfeld, Tom Wassenaar and Vaclav Smil. "International trade in meat: The tip of the pork chop". <i>Ambio</i> 36:622–629 (2007).</li> <li>"The two prime movers of globalization: history and impact of diesel engines and gas turbines". <i><a href="/wiki/Journal_of_Global_History" title="Journal of Global History">Journal of Global History</a></i>, 3:373–394 (2007).</li> <li>"Global material cycles". <i><a href="/wiki/Encyclopedia_of_Earth" title="Encyclopedia of Earth">Encyclopedia of Earth</a></i>, June 2, 2007.</li> <li>"The unprecedented shift in Japan's population: Numbers, age, and prospects". <i>Japan Focus</i>, May 1, 2007.</li> <li>"Light behind the fall: Japan's electricity consumption, the environment, and economic growth". <i>Japan Focus</i>, April 2, 2007.</li> <li>"<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.oecdobserver.org/news/fullstory.php/aid/2083/">21st century energy: Some sobering thoughts</a>". <i>OECD Observer</i>, 2006.</li> <li>"Peak oil: A catastrophist cult and complex realities". <i>World Watch</i> 19: 22–24 (2006).</li> <li>Naylor, R., Steinfeld, H., Falcon, W., Galloway, J., Smil, V., Bradford, E., Alder, J., Mooney, H. "Losing the links between livestock and land". <i><a href="/wiki/Science_(journal)" title="Science (journal)">Science</a></i> 310:1621–1622.</li> <li>"The next 50 years: Unfolding trends:. <i>Population and Development Review</i>, 31: 605–643 (2005).</li> <li>"Feeding the world: How much more rice do we need?" In: Toriyama K., Heong K.L., Hardy B., eds. <i>Rice is life: scientific perspectives for the 21st century</i>. Proceedings of the World Rice Research Conference held in Tokyo and Tsukuba, Japan, November 4–7, 2004. 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