Material World by Ed Conway

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/41175 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Material World Author: Ed Conway Narrator: Ed Conway Format: mp3 Length: 15 hrs and 11 mins Release date: 06-15-23 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 26 ratings Genres: Economics Publisher's Summary: Sand, iron, salt, oil, copper and lithium. The struggle for these tiny, magical materials has razed empires, demolished civilizations, fed our greed and our ingenuity for thousands of years. But the story is not over. We are often told we now live in a weightless world of information but in fact we dug more stuff out of the earth in 2017 than in all of human history before 1950. And it's getting worse. To make one bar of gold, we now have to dig 5,000 tons of earth. For every tonne of fossil fuels, we extract six tonnes of other materials - from sand to stone to wood to metal.