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Making the Modern World, Vaclav Smil
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  • Maria Klimenkovahas quoted10 years ago
    Foods are rapidly metabolized to yield energy and nutrients for human growth and activity; fuels are rapidly oxidized (burned) to yield, directly and indirectly, various forms of useful energy (heat, motion, light): in neither case do they increase the material stock of modern societies.
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