It's not that I hang on everything Bill Gates is promoting, but Vaclav Smil is someone I'll be reading more of over the next few months. Here is a good introduction to his ideas that recently was published in Wired Magazine.
From his website:
Vaclav Smil does interdisciplinary research in the fields of energy,
environmental and population change, food production and nutrition,
technical innovation, risk assessment, and public policy.
He has published more than 30 books and some 400 papers on these
topics. He is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of
Manitoba, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (Science Academy), the
first non-American to receive the American Association for the
Advancement of Science Award for Public Understanding of Science and
Technology, and in 2010 he was listed by Foreign Policy among the top
100 global thinkers.
He has worked as a consultant for many US, EU and international
institutions, has been an invited speaker in more than 300 conferences
and workshops in the USA, Canada, Europe, Asia and Africa, and has
lectured at many universities in North America, Europe and East Asia.
His wife Eva is a physician and his son David is an organic synthetic
chemist.
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