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Vaclav Smil Quotes

born 1943 Canada

Vaclav Smil (born 9 December 1943) is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada.

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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.

How the World Really Works (2022)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Vaclav Smil (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.