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Who Is Vaclav Smil and why should Canadians know what much of the world, including Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, already knows of him? Arguably, with 39 books to his credit , he is the most prominent “unknown” Canadian thinker. And in a period when the world hangs over a precipice of energy shortage, given his specialty in the linkage of energy, food and the environment Smil is a key voice for the future of the world. Simply put his proposal is to consume less and consume better. In "Numbers Don't Lie: 71 stories to help understand the modern world" The University of Manitoba's Smil offers unsentimental commentary on many green energy "solutions". You can purchase the book from Libra, our socially superior alternative to Amazon and TorontotheBetter's parent worker co-op (email libra@web.ca with Smil in the subject line) - or borrrow it from the Toronto Public Library at www.torontopubliclibrary.ca. For more on Smil the person see: www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/03/meet-vaclav-smil-man-who-has-quietly-shaped-how-world-thinks-about-energy